The knives were stabbing and the guts were flowing Wednesday night at Titlow Beach. No blood was shed, though. Just a lot of pumpkin innards.
As Nora Engel, 8, was designing and directing her father, Scott Engel, did the cutting and entrails dumping. The pair were carving a jack-o’-lantern at community artist John James Nelson’s fourth annual Titlow Pumpkin Patch.
Nelson is the man behind the TACOMA sign made up of individual letters attached to off shore pilings at Tacoma’s Titlow Beach. Local municipal and government agencies look the other way as he installs and sets up his popular guerrilla art projects, which have quickly become iconic…