GET ME REWRITE: French protestors provide an opportunity to share very brief histories of the Mona Lisa and pumpkins

 

Screenshot from YouTube video

5550 B.C.  

Earliest known date of pumpkins in the Americas.

1503

Leonardo da Vinci begins painting the Mona Lisa.

Mid-1500s

European explorers return with pumpkins seeds.   Cultivation in England and France.

1630s

Mainstay of colonial New England diet.

1675

First pumpkin pie recipe.

1904

The Mona Lisa is installed in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre.  

 

The crowded gallery where the Mona Lisa is installed.  (Photo taken by Retiring Guy on 12/29/2011.)

Sources:

A Brief History of Pumpkins.  (WGBH, 11/1/2017)

Mona Lisa timeline.  (PBS)