Happy Halloween. . . .This story has been retold around Akron, New York, a village in the town of Newstead, over the last two centuries. Even the official website forErie Countyhas a variant of it online. The definitive tale is by Arthur C. Parker, who recounted it inThe Life of Gen...
It would be Thanksgiving, Halloween, and soon after, the snow would fly.Yogi Harbhajan Singh had arrived in another hemisphere, very different to what he had been accustomed to. The people here looked strangely blanched compared with the coffee-skinned people of Delhi. They spoke with a ...
We of sort of celebrate Halloween, but is appears to be a lot more informal the way we celebrate it. We have ANZAC day in April and Remembrance day in November to remember the Australians that fought in WWI/II. Otherwise, because we have such a diverse background of different cultures, ...
By the mid-18th century, the rowdy behavior had become a carnivalesque misrule that was closer to what we think of as Halloween or Mardi Gras today. An established mummer's parade made up of cross-dressing men, known as the Fantasticals, began by the 1780s: it was considered a more a...
She came to Hawaii for a few visits in the 60s and 70s — in 1972 for my mother’s wedding (pictured below – with her son, 2nd daughter-in-law, and grandson Shawn) and sometime later in the mid-70s during the Halloween season. ...
And so begins Irving’s romantic tale of how Ichabod wooed the lovely Katrina Van Tassel at the quilting frolic one Halloween night. In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at the broad expansion of the river dominated by the ancient Dutch...
The Scariest Halloween During Halloween 1982, the city was terrified by much more than ghosts and ghouls -- the Tylenol Poisonings had folks frightened for the kids' lives. October 29, 2014 Watch Chicagoland Spread A video from the NYU Stern Urbanization Project shows the spread of the Chicago...
Some five years after the Rexburg, Idaho homosexual scandal "rocked the community", beginning on Halloween night 1955, Gay men in Boise, Idaho were caught in what has rightly been called the "nation's most infamous homosexual witch hunt", partially instigated and aided by local Mormon Church ...
Halloween, a holiday observed on October 31, the evening before All Saints’ Day. The celebration marks the day before the Western Christian feast of All Saints and initiates the season of Allhallowtide. In much of Europe and most of North America, obser