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Subject: Halloween in Essex Jct. Author: Brina [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 01:07:50 10/28/02 Mon I'm curious, those of you who still live in Essex Jct. and are raising kids there, what's the trick-or-treating situation like there these days? Do you let your kids go block-to-block without a parent along? Growing up there in the '60s, we girls were really allowed to go a long distance...on our own...from what I think was about the age of 9 or 10... We live in Minneapolis, in a neighborhood that's not inner city but not quite suburban either. My son is almost 13 but he's STILL not allowed to go out door-to-door without a parent somewhere nearby (I think last year he and friends did a block at a time, with a parent in the car parked at one end of the block). It's too bad, but that's life here in the city. I'm just curious what the Essex Jct. kids experience these days... [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Halloween in Essex Jct. Author: Patti Rooney [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 08:57:31 10/28/02 Mon I bring my kids in from Cambridge to trick or treat. I go with them around Cascadnac, Wenonah, Hiawatha and West Street. We see other people we grew up with along with their kids. We also see quite a few of our old neighbors; and of course we stay awhile at the Grandparents. It seems like most of the kids out are with an adult. We use to go all the way down West Street and up South Street back towards Hiawatha and I don't remember parents coming along in those days.

[> [> Subject: Re: Halloween in Essex Jct. Author: Brina [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12:12:41 10/28/02 Mon Patti, That sounds nice! Did you marry into the Rooney family? I was in Shawn's grade, what a wonderful girl. I know that her husband died a while back and that must've been very difficult. How is she doing these days? Yes, when we grew up in Essex Jct. (Iroquois Ave. til I was 12), my sister and girlfriends and I went all over the place without any grown-ups along for Halloween. One year we found some sort of special pumpkin that was a promotion for WDOT Radio. When we redeemed it, we got a whole case of Coke!

[> Subject: Re: Halloween in Essex Jct. Author: Patti (Moreau) Rooney [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 14:09:57 10/28/02 Mon I am married to Dan. He is the oldest in the family-one year older than Shawn. Shawn's husband Kevin Willis died just over a year ago of stomach cancer and it was a very difficult time. Shawn is doing very well with two kids Matthew, a sophomore or junior in highschool and Lindsey in eigth grade. They live in Underhill and she teaches 7/8 grade Math and Science in Essex Town. I grew up just around the corner from the Rooney family - on West Street. My brother Stephen would have been in your class.

[> [> Subject: Re: Halloween in Essex Jct. Author: Brina [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 20:35:39 10/28/02 Mon Yes, Patti, I remember Steve Moreau well! I wrote to Shawn when I read about her husband's death last year. I'm glad she and the kids are doing well; it's not easy, though. Shawn and I always sat next to each other in alphabetical classes, and we thought it was cool that we even had the same middle initial! (Shawn Maureen Rooney/Sabrina Mary Rood!) Does she still love horses?

[> Subject: Re: Halloween in Essex Jct. Author: Patti Rooney [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 09:06:46 10/29/02 Tue Shawn has a horse and her daughter has a horse also. Lindsey is in a horse club in which she competes.

[> Subject: Re:Cabbage night in Essex Jct. Author: Joe [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 20:22:04 10/30/02 Wed Ahhhh....yes cabbage night back in the 70's. I can't get over how mellow both Cabbage and Halloween nights have become. It "used" to look like a war-zone Halloween morning. Now, I'll be driving to work and think; what the heck is going on? What's wrong with this picture? Halloween used to mean dark spooky streets. Now it's like lights-camera-action. Minivans equiped with a support team (hot chocolate, heat on, tv, vhs, radio, cd...) lining the street. My family and I live on a dark dirt road with about 15 house-holds close by. I take my boy (8yrs) trick or treating and it's great.....nice and spooky! We have become so over-loaded with information by the media that we are now, all scared. Back when we were teens, it was far more dangerous. Razor blades, rat poison, etc. Kids getting beat up all the time. Then coming home to get a good lick'n. I do enjoy these safe times. Enjoy the goods, I get at as much of my kids candy as possible.

[> [> Subject: Re:Cabbage night in Essex Jct. Author: Brina [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 22:46:34 10/30/02 Wed Joe, you're right! And you know what else we used to do on Halloween night in Essex Jct. in the '60s? If we were trick-or-treating in a block or neighborhood that we didn't know as well, we thought nothing of going inside a strangers' house (usually just the living room/entryway) if they invited us in. I remember one house where this married couple oohed and aahed over our costumes and even asked if they could take our picture. Can you imagine letting your kids go into strangers' living rooms nowadays?! Not a chance. I found out later that that friendly couple was the Rathgebs, you know, the theater couple? Really nice! But they could've been anybody. We were so open and trusting then.

[> Subject: Re: Halloween in Essex Jct. Author: Dave Prior [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 14:22:47 11/04/02 Mon Brina, You must have been talking about the "Fishs" house where they would take your picture. We had a great time back then door to door pretty safe down here in Shelburne. We were in Disney this year! We took Lynden and wrapped him in toilet paper as the mummy boy (not to be mistaken as a mommies boy). He had a ball, he even got scared by Nute Gingrich at our party. I don't think ALL republicans are that scary, just at Halloween!

[> Subject: Re: Halloween in Essex Jct. Author: Brina [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:17:04 11/05/02 Tue hi Dave, Actually we didn't live close enough to go to the Fishes' house when I was trick-or-treating age. At that age, I was living at my grandparents' house in Indian Acres (Iroquois Ave.); we moved over to Maple Street when I was in 7th grade. The Fishes were a lovely couple and very kind. Do you remember Mr. Fish (Charlie!) riding his bike around town, even when he was quite old? They lived on the corner of Maple Street and what street?