Thursday October 29,1981
Vernonia Freedom—Page 3
Halloween sparks childhood memories
by Charolette Klinger
toads.
Our Halloween treats were traded,
Did you ever notice how, when you auctioned, and used for bets on games
stare at a doorknob long enough, it of Fish and War until all that was left
begins to turn? Or that, if you stare were a few broken butterscotch balls
into the dark, there’s always.- and some boxes of raisins that
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fascinated by what was going on to
remember to ask for their treats.
This year, I’m back to my old
tricks, working on Vernonia’s ‘Legion
Hall of Horrors,’ which opens tonight
and runs through Saturday night. I
hope my readers will forgive me for
giving it a plug, but we’ve all worked
hard and we need your support to
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something there that you don’t
remember seeing when you turned the
light out? It’s as though we are
saying to ourselves, MI dare you to
open the door and see what’s behind
it,” or “I bet ya’ can’t go to sleep
without turning the light back on to
see what’s staring at ya’.” When it
comes to things that go bump in the
night, we never grow up. We love
being frightened by imaginary
beasties. Maybe, as author, Stephen
King suggests, it is because it makes
it easier to forget the real beasts.
My brothers and I loved Halloween
and had certain traditions that were
faithfully kept each year. Dad would
have to read us “Little Orphan
Annie” by James Whitcomb Riley
and Poe’s “The Raven” at least half a:
dozen times. When the lights went]
out and we were tucked into our bunk-
beds, we would try to outdo each
other with tales of ghosts and
goblins. My specialty was a pleasant
little number called “Bloody Bones.”
The story, about some creepy thing
that lived at the bottom of a floor
furnace, was made all the more
delicious by the fact that we had a
floor furnace that groaned when the
fire was lit. I wonder if Mom ever
guessed the reason for the dark
circles under our eyes at the breakfast
table the next morning.
A sweet old man, who, guessing
from the myriad of powder and liquid
filled bottles he kept in his front
room, was probably a retired chemist,
lived on our street. He would give us
toothpicks soaked in peppermint or
cinnamon oil, and, any other time of
the year, his crinkled eyes and long
white beard made him look like Santa
Claus. On Halloween, though, we
were certain he turned into a sorcerer.
We had to run past his house so that
he wouldn’t turn us into bats or warty
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someone was thoughtless enough to
pass out.
When we grew too old to go Trick or
Treating, we had fun passing out the
candy. One year, I brought my hair
forward and put on sunglasses so that
I vaguely resembled a distant cousin
of Cousin It of the Addams Family.
Another year, I smeared my face with
my mother’s green facial mask and
stood out front with a cauldron of dry
ice. As I gave my best witch’s cackle
and emptied the perspiration from my
plastic nose, two of my fellow eighth
graders walked by, one whispering to
the other, “I’m glad my mom’s not
that crazy!”
The Crane garage was a cemetary
one year, complète with werewolf, and
a laboratory for Doctor Frankenstein
the next. We became legendary in our
neighborhood, and there were many
disappointed youngsters when we
kids finally moved away from home.
What Mom and Dad spent on
decorations, they probably saved on
candy. Most kids were either too
frightened to come up or were too
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in bringing your children, and be
prepared to have a good time. See you
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