Happy Halloween
The most perfect night for trick-or-treating in years, warm (c. 60F), dry, a bright quarter-moon. Not a lot of trick-or-treaters, alas, but a nice outing with Offering Boy (as Eddie from “Ed, Edd and Eddy”) and the Littlest Offering (fairy princess).
Hot Liberty has a great Halloween treat suggestion, and Dave Fiore reminisces about two great lost Halloween traditions - the Rutland, VT Halloween parade, and the numerous early Bronze Age comic book stories set there. Dave points to a website devoted to Rutland Parade comics issues maintained by Rutland native Ian P. Berger.
When I was a kid, I dearly wanted one day to get to the Rutland Halloween Parade. Now I am left with nothing but questions, like: Why was the annual parade discontinued? and Come to think of it, wouldn’t a Halloween Parade in Vermont be cold as hell? and It’s all Howard Dean’s fault somehow, right?
Ah, no matter.
