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[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

when is trick or treating in medford?

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[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

When you say "towns", could you give an example or two? I've never lived in any community which had trick-or-treating any day other than the evening of October 31st.

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

BTW, I'm not denying it exists, I'm just trying to figure out if it's a purely regional thing. Like "Pop" in the midwest, "Seltzer" in Boston, and "Coke" in the south. All referring to the same thing.

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

Seltzer?

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

http://www.popvssoda.com/

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

and frequently in New England, the word is Tonic.

[skate97.livejournal.com]

tonic i'll give you. never heard seltzer in MA. but i've lived in new england my whole life and the majority of people just say soda.

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

http://www.newhampshire.com/entertainment/nh-trick-or-treat-times.aspx

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

NH sounds about right. I remember my aunt there talking about "trick-or-treating" being held at the local fire station. It wasn't the usual idea of going door to door.

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

Yeah, being from NH, we always looked up in the paper to find out what the times, dates and special requirements were this year.. so I'm sort of baffled as to what to do here :)

[ellf.livejournal.com]

AFAIK, nothing special. Most of my life (all of which has been in Boston or the Metrowest area), Halloween trick-or-treating has been a 6pm-8pm thing, with some families being out a bit earlier or later. Houses with porch lights on were fair game; a turned off light indicated no candy was being handed out.

I imagine that the local papers will indicate the particulars, but in this area I would be surprised if the holiday were handled differently.

[nowalmart.livejournal.com]

I lived on Conwell Ave (off Curtis) for two Halloweens and was always amazed at the number of kids we would get. At first I was snacking on the candy and letting kids grab from the bowl.

As the night got later and more and more kids kept appearing, I stopped reaching into the bowl myself, and made sure to limit each kid to just one piece.

As it turned out, I ended the night with exactly one piece leftover.

I think it helped that Conwell is a very long street with not too much traffic, and a lot of families. Sounds like prime Trick-or-treating area right there.

[xjustquietx.livejournal.com]

My sister lives in Pennsylvania, where it is also scheduled for Fridays or Saturdays, depending on the town. Which I think is a tragedy; I grew up here and can't imagine of a better place to have Halloween. and I often consider kidnapping my nephews so they can celebrate on a school night like God intended.

They also hand out shots to the adults.

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

JP specifically schedules their T&T from 4pm to 7pm for the local businesses (I think it's a community business coalition that arranges it).

I've seen lots of more organized T&T things, but often halloween night still ends up being a time to expect em, depending on where you live.

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

Haverhill apparently as well.