I was thinking about the way that we celebrated Halloween when I was a child.
I think about it every year around this time when my grand-daughter goes trick-or-treating.
In North Dakota, it was always very cold. Many years, it snowed or there was snow on the ground by Halloween. We didn't have elaborate costumes. We just wore plastic masks and our heavy winter coats. I guess there was not much point wearing a costume because we would have had to cover it up with a coat.
The schools had large parties for the entire school on Halloween. We bobbed for apples, played games and collected money for Unicef. The parties were in the evening, and the entire community attended the activities. It wasn't anything elaborate, but it was fun with a great sense of community.
We went trick-or-treating after the party. We got one piece of candy from each house, plus coins for Unicef.
No one decorated for Halloween other than a carved pumpkin.
The high school kids pulled pranks, such as TP'ing houses, moving out-houses or tipping them over, or leaving various items on main street. I heard that one time, years before my time, some guys put a cow on top of a building. I don't know how they would have been able to do that, so it might have been a tall tale.
All-in-all, it was a great time.
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