812-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 21,1989
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Considering the season, the set
ting seemed most appropriate.
Small, bright orange, jack-o
lantem pumpkins flanked both
sides of the porch. A pair of solid,
almost beige-colored, neck pump
kins were propped toward the
back. And one black-furred cat
crouched between the pumpkins,
peering out with shining, yellow
green eyes.
Only thing missing was a black
garbed, straggly-haired person
wearing a pointed, black witches
hat. But then, there had been no
specific intent to arrange this
Halloween-looking porch scene;
the pumpkins had just ended up
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there, and the cat plopped herself
down on the cool concrete.
Halloween’s become another
major merchandising holiday in
recent years, what with all the cos
tume, party supplies, cards, and
even electrically-lit outside deco
rations. Sociologists claim it’s the
baby boom generation trying to
recapture the excitement of child
hood Halloweens.
At the risk of dating myself,
there’s a lot moore “hoopla” today
associated with fright night than
when I was a kid. Costumes were
often of our own making. We
gathered the comparatively simple
treats from just a few close neigh
bors in our rural neighborhood,
carrying them in plain old brown
paper bags. Homemade candy and
popcorn balls were readily con-
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sumed without worry of tamper
ing. Biting into a worm from a
home-grown apple was possible,
but no one had ever heard of
crunching into a razor blade.
I never soaped or waxed a win
dow in my life. Had I ever done so
and been caught - the guarantee
of spending more hours scraping
and washing it off the victim’s
windows had been well explained
to me in very clear terms.
But I will confess to having
snitched an ear or two of com
from nearby fields in the darkness
of Halloween night Tossing hun
dreds of shelled com against a
house window was a typical
method of reminding neighbor
hood residents of what day we
were celebrating.
That was pretty innocent com
pared to some of the Halloween
pranks I’ve heard recounted.
Classic is that old tradition made
obsolete by progress: upsetting the
outhouse.
A group of us at a recent meet
ing got to debating about the rea
son for upsetting outhouses. No
one seemed to know why they
were targets, just that they inevi
tably were.
One good friend who years ago
served on the school board of a
large rural district noted that it was
the job of school directors to set
the outhouses back up at their loc
al one-room schools, after Hallo
ween pranksters toppled them.
And another friend related one of
those classic tales of an outhouse
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being upset while in use, and the
victim catching'the name of one of
the pranksters, and, well, just use
your imagination to figure out the
rest.
Still another vividly recalled a
farmer’s flatbed hay wagon turn
ing up some distance away in the
yard of a rural school. Early the
next morning, she spied several
neighborhood boys, lugging the
wagon back from whence it had
come. And, there were several
hills in the road between, she
remembered.
A hay rake belonging to a far
mer’s relative was completely dis
mantled and left in a pile of rake
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Eighteen-year-old Tracy Beatty of
Asbury in Hunterdon County was
recently crowned the 1989-90
New Jersey Dairy Princess.
Tracy lives on a 165-acre farm
with her parents Bemie and Sha
ron Beatty, two younger sisters
and twin brothers. Their farm pre
fix is BSB Holsteins. They milk
50 registered Holsteins and are
raising 50 young stock. The Beat
tys ship their milk tc NFO. Tracy
owns 10 registered 1 ilsteins of
her own which she has shown at
numerous 4-H and Open Shows
during her ten years as a 4-H Club
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Dairy Princess, she wants to not
only inform the public about the
importance of dairy products but
also about the very important per-
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teeth, bolts, nuts and parts by one
group of tool-wielding Halloween
pranksters many years ago. And,
from what I’ve heard friends
relate, finding your driving buggy
on top of your shed or bam roof
wasn’t too unusual.
So maybe all the current Hallo
ween “hoopla” is really progress
after all. It’s certainly more posi
tive than dismantling, moving and
pushing property around.
At die least, it’s diverted the
flood of Christmas commerciali
zation from the marketplace
shelves a couple of more weeks.
And it’s a perfect excuse to lay in
a supply of chocolate candybars.
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