TopDawg Travel

Halloween has always been my “New Year’s Eve”.  Halloween translates into “All Hallow’s Eve”.  According to Halloween in “Wiki-pedia”:

The term Halloween (and its alternative rendering Hallowe’en) is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the evening of/before “All Hallows’ Day”, also known as “All Saints‘ Day”. It was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints’ Day from May 13 to November 1. In the ninth century,the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although All Saints’ (or Hallows’) Day is now considered to occur one day after Halloween, the two holidays were, at that time, celebrated on the same day. Liturgically, the Church traditionally celebrated that day as the Vigil of All Saints, and, until 1970, a day of fasting as well. Like other vigils, it was celebrated on the previous day if it fell on a Sunday, although secular celebrations of the holiday remained on the 31st. The Vigil was suppressed in 1955, but was later restored in the post-Vatican II calendar.

Even as a child, I enjoyed dressing up in a costume & being “scared” by the other participants in the festivities of the evening.  Perhaps being raised in an Irish-Catholic environment and attending a parochial school influenced my enjoyment of Halloween – the next day was a “day-off” from school, and it was my birthday.  It was like having a 48 hour birthday celebration!  

Think of all the places one can go to celebrate the All Hallow’s Eve/Halloween  event!  Like Tombstone, Arizona or Cape Fear, North Carolina.  So “Trick, Treat or Travel!”