Halloween in America. Where did it come from and why is it great?
Halloween is, primarily, an annual American holiday celebrated each year on October 31. It is a holiday everyone loves, and are looking forward to for months. The events around Halloween are many and very different, some I experienced myself. On the Upper West Side in New York, we walked by a few places advertising for pet parades and pet costume competitions. On the Lower West Side, they were celebrating the pre-Halloween weekend with children’s playground Halloween party down on Bleecker’s street and hundreds of families had turned up to enter their child into the competition for best costume and play with the other Halloween dressed-up kids. House on Upper West Side, New York In Boston, they had a few block parties. We attended one pre-Halloween-weekend Dia de los Muertos at the Taza chocolate factory with free chocolate and traditional Mexican dancing for the season. In the evening the streets were filled with dressed-up adults out to have a good nig...