Halloween

Halloween Additions

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We're reposting our list of events going on around Wallingford this Halloween, plus some additions: Wallingford Center will have face painters, crafts and prizes from 4 – 6 pm. Thriller Dance group from Roosevelt High at Boys & Girls Club 5:30, Wallingford Center by 6 pm, Not A Number/Fainting Goat Gelato about 6:15.  Expect to see lots of zombies out there Not a Number (1905 N 45th) features Madam Lina, Gypsy Fortuneteller and also will have a costume contest and mini-pumpkin…

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Notes from the Playground – All Hallows’ Eve Edition

(Sharon veers off-topic this week, with a Note Not from the Playground) Halloween is a strange and fascinating holiday filled with frights, delights and everything that children of all ages seem to love. According to Wikipedia, the celebration has its roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints. Although everyone knows its association with pumpkins, costumes, trick or treating, pranks, and slasher films, there are other interesting elements that conspire to make it utterly…

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Hive Mind Halloween

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Perhaps you live in East Wallingford, somewhat near the John Stanford School, and remember some outrageously large Halloween house parties years ago, disrupting the neighborhood? Well, that was us. From roughly 1995 through 2004, we hosted a Halloween party that was, if we do say so ourselves, fantastic. Over the years it grew from 20 or so of our friends to 40 to 80 to 100 and eventually topped out at around 400 people, which is far more than will fit…

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