I’m sure plenty of towns do their own versions of Halloween,
but nobody does Halloween like Salem, Massachusetts. Witches? Check. Pirates?
Check. Candlelight cemetery tours, a neon-lit Ferris wheel, and reenactments of
the witches’ trials, with the audience members as the jury? Check, check and
check. Not to mention a couple of LED-lit wizards riding Segways and giving
sermons (I’m not sure if they were trying to gain converts or if that was part
of their schtick) and … well, it’d be impossible to list all the weirdness
Arizona and I saw on Derby Street and thereabouts over the weekend.
Some snippets of overheard conversations:
“No, no. I want Chrissy between
Jack Sparrow and the giant squirrel. That’s it. Okay, now everybody say 'eye of newt'!”
“Did that headless guy just stick a French fry through his
sternum?”
“Oh, boy. That Playboy Bunny has to be cold!”
And so on. I had to grin when my mother, who lives in Salem
and was guiding us through town, said to my crowd-hating
but very tolerant husband, “I know this is probably your idea of the seventh
circle of hell, but you’ve got to admit that it’s pretty cool, too.”
He admitted it. And it was definitely cool. Here’s Frankenstein grabbing my cousin, who is screaming while my mom and I laugh our
patooties off (and Arizona takes the picture).
Have a happy (and safe) Halloween, and I hope you laugh your
patootie off!
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