HALLOWEEN TREATS from the novel
HAVENWOOD TALES Beginnings by D.J. Houston
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We played at dodging shadows and bobbed for apples floating in a big washtub along with some other kids, while the grownups traded pumpkins and baskets of corn and nuts and such around a roaring bonfire in the dark. But other than sensing somebody watching me from behind a tree and the hair on my arms standing up, it was pretty uneventful.
As for trick-or-treating on Halloween, it usually got too cold at night by late October for kids to be running around outside begging candy from Havenwood folks. Nobody had kept extra candy during the war and the habit stuck, and the houses were too far apart for any big hauls if they had any.
But in that freer world of 1946, nothing said we couldn’t celebrate at school . . .
Continued at Halloween School Nostalgia
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Then he told me the story of a loyal Irish setter named Buddy. And how, when he was a boy, Buddy laid down one day and never got up.
. . . He called her his Lily of Liverpool. She called him her Yankee Doodle.
he fact that I learned to sing Christmas carols by first finding out what the words in the lyrics actually meant is why I can still remember them to this day. And the carols I remember best are the ones we learned in Havenwood School’s Young People’s Christmas Choir, under the able auspices of Miss Lucinda Greenlee . . .
Maybe my next big break in life would be on the stage. Maybe it wouldn’t. But it promised to be a hallmark moment for Havenwood . . .
Miss Greenlee wore lovely, smart blouses from sophisticated foreign lands, and skirts splashed with patterns of butterflies or colorful birds or bold, bright stripes running down them — or flowers you could almost smell like a flow of perfume from the quality fabrics . . .
Havenwood Tales 
Magical Mystery – Life Journey – The Wisdom of Human Nature
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A glimpse at the novel HAVENWOOD TALES Beginnings by D.J. Houston
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Painting by Michael Lang
“I don’t want to believe in monsters and scary things in the night like other kids do, Mama.”
Her response was calm and earnest.
“There are monsters in this world, Trudie Beth. That’s a fact. But people don’t want to see them. . .
“The goodness of human nature makes it hard to look at evil’s face. So people make up stories about monsters instead.”
While I cogitated that, she added, “Sometimes they do it for fun.”
That made me smile, so she went on . . .
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