Halloween used to be about getting candy ready for the trick or treaters that would begin ringing the doorbell right before dark. Not much of that going on in downtown and I have to admit I enjoy not having to get up to answer the door...if I'm home. The weekend will give way to the traditional Mexican Day of the Dead celebration on the first and second days of November, the celebration of death as a continuation of life....sugar skeletons, parades, and an all night party at the cemetery. Sounds like fun, but I would have to drive an hour north to visit the graves of grandparents and I'm not sure they would understand if I left a bottle of tequila on their tombstones. So instead we will go to St. Paul's historic Oakland Cemetery in the daylight hours with neighbors and visit some well known figures, governors, civil war generals and even a member of John Dillinger's gang.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
'Til Death Do Us Part
Halloween used to be about getting candy ready for the trick or treaters that would begin ringing the doorbell right before dark. Not much of that going on in downtown and I have to admit I enjoy not having to get up to answer the door...if I'm home. The weekend will give way to the traditional Mexican Day of the Dead celebration on the first and second days of November, the celebration of death as a continuation of life....sugar skeletons, parades, and an all night party at the cemetery. Sounds like fun, but I would have to drive an hour north to visit the graves of grandparents and I'm not sure they would understand if I left a bottle of tequila on their tombstones. So instead we will go to St. Paul's historic Oakland Cemetery in the daylight hours with neighbors and visit some well known figures, governors, civil war generals and even a member of John Dillinger's gang.
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