Howdy neighbor!
Happy Hallowe’en! All Hallows Eve is almost upon us, and if you’re anything like me, you’re getting ready. There’s much to do. Costumes need picking out. Decorations need to be unloaded from preferably bat-filled attics, or possibly hauled up from dismal, shadow haunted cellars. And candy laid out by the bowlful in preparation for the resistless army of terrifying horrors soon to advance on childish feet through all the leaf-strewn lawns of Bridgton. O, to think of the days when I was a child, when it seemed that all the houses of the village did something spooky for Hallowe’en; when bedsheet-flapping ghosts ran stick-in-hand, rattling all the fenceposts of High Street on their way down to the grand Costume Ball at the old Town Hall. For anyone looking for a suitable celebration this year, join me in company with the Bridgton Library this Hallowe’en at 1 p.m. for a spooky tour of the South Bridgton Cemetery on Route 107.
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