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I received a Happy Halloween card from a fellow blogger; the first I've ever gotten. Halloween is a bad word around my neck of the woods. The Baptist Church ladies and the Pentecostal preachers decreed several years ago that Halloween was a celebration of witchery and anti-Christan doctrine, so trick or treating is frowned upon.
Before then, however, every school had a Halloween Carnival in school gymnasiums. The gym would be decorated in orange and black streamers and shocks of dried cornstalks and hay bales. Kids would dress in costumes and there would be booths in the gym,  selling popcorn balls and candied apples and cake and roasted peanuts and soft drinks. A section of the gym would be closed off and turned into a haunted house with mummies and skeletons jumping out to holler "Boo" at the kids.It was crowded and noisy and kids and adults alike enjoyed it.
Then it began to be called a "Fall Festival." Everything the same except the name. Now I am sad to say even the fall festivals are fading into obscurity. I haven't heard of a single one this year. I feel like boo-hooing.
humbug
