October 23rd SHHS Program Needs Your Help

An early BOO! to all SHHS program attendees to help you get in the mood to provide us with ideas for a possible Halloween themed program-event for October 23, 2015. Lots of crazy things have gone on over the years in our quaint little town during the spookiest time of the year. From the imaginative pranks by normally highly respected members of our community to actual ghostly sightings and haunted houses that were once sweet, peaceful homes before being taken over by apparitions and the undead, South Hero has played host to it all. We even had a very rude but funny giant pumpkin find its way to a balcony window at the South Hero Inn in the 1970's that tossed taunting remarks at Trick-or-Treaters as they passed below on the street.

We need your help to assemble a grand Halloween program that is still only in the earliest stages of creation. If you have outlandish pranks from the past that you would be willing to share at the program that night, we want to hear from you. We are also considering presenting a collection of local spooky stories told by candlelight, having people attend in some of their award winning costumes from the past and maybe sharing a story about how they came to be and what trouble they might have gotten into wearing them, a discussion about the outstanding hosts of Halloween who attracted hundreds of kids to their homes by offering some of the best candy in town and having the creepiest decorated houses, and remembrances of the local homemade haunted houses, dungeons, backyards and forests, This is the night when the veil between the living and not so living is very thin, so please offer material that will not agitate the former and initiate unplanned intermissions. This will be a fun night for both kids and adults, so provide your suggestions freely and offer to be a presenter so that we will have a program that will be remembered as a part of future Halloween history!!

If you would like to share a story please call one of us. We will put together a fun program. Judy Duval 372-4393, Sue Crowley 372-4624, Bret Corbin 372-4432, Hazel Quelch 372-3256, Anne Quinn 372-4548 or Terry Robinson 372-3933 or email us at southherohistoricalsociety@gmail.com Thank you!

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