I love Halloween!
Halloween encourages us to reach back to the most primal of feelings about the dark of the year. It encourages us to think about times and people past. And it encourages creative thinking.
How do I celebrate Halloween? I usually trek out to some dark and rural corner of the world and I wonder if these are the sights and sounds that were a daily part of my ancestors' lives.
So what is there to do in the Delaware region for Halloween? Plenty!
Here are some events that I have discovered:
October 17,18,24,25 Spirits of Fort Delaware: A Night of Haunted Tales Delaware City, DE
October 17 Delaware Ghost Tours (Wilmington and Western Railroad)
October 18-19,25-26 Halloween Days and Spooky Knights Mount Hope Estate Winery, PA
October 20 Halloween Parade Middletown, DE
October 24-26 19th Annual Sea Witch and Fiddlers Festival Rehoboth, DE
October 25 Monsters of the Sea Day at the Zwaanendael Museum Lewes, DE
October 26 Halloween Express (Wilmington and Western Railroad)
October 26 Halloween Parade Newark, DE
October 29 Halloween Parade and Party Seaford, DE
October 30 Strasburg Lions Club Annual Halloween Parade Strasburg, PA
November 1 Dracula's Ball (Shampoo Night Club) Philadelphia,PA
You might also be interested in checking out farms that offer 'pick your own' apple orchards and pumpkin patches. Some farms may also have offerings such as 'build your own scarecrow' and the obligatory seasonal farm stand. I know of one farm, Quigleys, that offers 'haunted hay rides'.
Of course, this list would not be complete without mentioning Frightland, a seasonal amusement park in Middletown.
Check back for more Halloween thoughts!
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Would anyone really want to be President of the United States of America?
Our economy is lying on the sidewalk bleeding, we've gotten a whole smattering of our good international buddies involved in our morass, we've got a frightening about of national debt going on, and the U. S. dollar has lost even more value versus the Euro and Pound. We're not on the best of terms with Russia. We have a schadenfreud relationship with China (they own our debt, and a lot of our heavy industry has been outsourced there). You personally get blamed for every "bad" thing blamed on Americans. Some paparazzo is hiding in the bushes to take pictures of you every time you scratch your butt! I can't imagine how a President can sleep at night or escape chronic ulcers!
What's sad is that the two major parties have grown so similar in their political machinations, that recent Presidential elections seemed for the most part to be a pit fight between two unexciting fellows whose names the bulk of Americans will not remember in 5 years. The thing that we the people need most from whoever "wins" the election is someone who can work with Congress to fix the mess that we're in. From what I've heard, both gentleman seem keen to do this. But do they really know what other wonderful prizes they've won?
Maybe Harry Truman said it best- "My choice early in life was to either be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference."
What's sad is that the two major parties have grown so similar in their political machinations, that recent Presidential elections seemed for the most part to be a pit fight between two unexciting fellows whose names the bulk of Americans will not remember in 5 years. The thing that we the people need most from whoever "wins" the election is someone who can work with Congress to fix the mess that we're in. From what I've heard, both gentleman seem keen to do this. But do they really know what other wonderful prizes they've won?
Maybe Harry Truman said it best- "My choice early in life was to either be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference."
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