The epic of the outhouse and Halloween as seen by a teenager of many years ago

By Gordon Garnos

AT ISSUE: Halloween is an age-old custom that is observed on the eve of All Saints' Day. Dressing up in weird costumes has been a part of this observance, Halloween, not All Saints' Day for about as long as the festivity has been in the history books. However, there were other customs connected with the day, or I should say "night," say 50 to 100 years ago that kids today just don't have any of the contraptions left for them to tip over. Halloween just isn't the same today as it was then....

THE STATUTE OF limitations, I'm sure, probably will protect me for today's column, but I want to make it perfectly clear that a good share of what I am telling came from research and not from personal experience. (Full Article)