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Why Halloween? |
| Some visitors have written and asked "Why Halloween?" "Why would you work so many long hours all year long to create a FREE Halloween web site that most people only visit during September and October. My name is Daniel, Allow me to explain, please. |
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guess I have loved Halloween ever since I was a child growing up in
Massachusetts. In the Fall, the leaves on the trees turn to brilliant
shades of orange, yellow and red. When the leaves fell from the trees,
the wind would blow them down the streets in unbelievably beautiful
swirls of color. There were pumpkins on doorsteps everywhere. |
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have fond memories of the paper mache' jack-o-lanterns at the "Five
& Dime" store wrapped in orange cellophane. I still remember
looking at the Halloween decorations, the designs were very mysterious
to this young lad. |
I would linger as long as possible in the department stores looking
at the new Halloween costumes with those thin plastic masks and deciding
on what I would wear when that special night finally came - Halloween!
If we didn't have money for costumes we would rub a burnt cork on our
face and go as hobo's. Can you believe that kids wore costumes like
"CHACHI"? What a great time of year Halloween was, you could
feel the excitement in the air. Halloween became, and still is, my favorite
holiday. |
 I'm
grown now and times are different, but I still love decorating around
the house and yard for Halloween. I overheard some of the neighborhood
children saying "lets go trick-or-treat at that spooky house." They
were pointing at my home. To a true Halloween lover, that's the equivalent
of winning an oscar. |
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to the question, "why did I create this web site?"
Close your eyes if you will, and visualize yourself as a child happily
trick-or-treating door to door, coming home with a huge bag of candy.
This is why I created this web site as a gift for that child you now
see within yourself. It is because of these fond memories that I wanted
to share Halloween as I remember it with you. I decided to build this
web site so today's children will have fond memories of Halloween like
I have. This web site is dedicated to children of all ages
who still enjoy Halloween.This is my gift to children ages 1 to 100, who love Halloween as I do. All the planning, design, graphics, coding and maintenance on this site is a one man operation. It has taken over 3 years of work to complete it. Hopefully this site will have a positive effect on you and you will find the fun side of Halloween that I knew as a child. I hope you will make your own wonderful Halloween memories. Sincerely, Daniel WEBMASTER: www.1Halloween.net |
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