From Woman’s World Magazine
It isn’t even Halloween! We still have to get through Thanksgiving! But Taunton, the Christmas City, is already beginning to prepare for the big display on the Taunton Green.
In a way I can forgive them. They do go all out when they decorate and often they have to build some of the displays to avoid repeating too many from the past. They try to make it new and different each year.
I think Taunton usually has a “lighting Ceremony” the first week in December but more and more surrounding communities are lighting up in mid- November, even before Thanksgiving!
Last year was the first time I noticed the way the display seemed to grow. Before I never paid any attention. I’d just be driving home one night and there it was, all lit up… Just like magic !
They are building something around the fountain again but the design is different. This green and white thing showed up Friday. I’m making guesses in my head as to what this will be. Maybe a drum? Will they build another Jack-in-the- box?
Last year I had my doubts as I watched this huge box get built in the middle of the green. I really thought it was going to be ugly. In the end it wasn’t bad at all.
I don’t think it was as nice as the year they surrounded the fountain with angel heralds but that’s just my opinion.
Now that I’m working from home I’ll be able to sneak down to check on the progress better than in years past.
It’s going to be fun watching the scene unfold.
I had the pleasure of visiting a local elementary school for their Halloween Parade. My friend’s daughter, Dawn, was Princess Ariel. Dawn recently lost her front baby teeth so getting her to smile is, well, like pulling teeth. 🙂 She still makes a beautiful princess. Happy Halloween!
What happened to Thanksgiving? Wasn’t Halloween only last week? The candy is still on sale!
I drove by the Taunton Green and they are stringing the Christmas lights already. Since Taunton is known as The Christmas City the display each year is quite elaborate so I’ll give them a little slack.
However I ran into Walmart to pick up a few things and there by the door was a fully decorated Christmas Tree! Inside the store you could shop to the tune of Jingle Bell Rock.
Maybe it was the early snow storm that swept through New England but I still think the Christmas trees and decorations should go up the day after Thanksgiving….one holiday at a time!
Of course if retailers must get ready for the season before Thanksgiving, could’t we have a week or two after Halloween to finish eating our candy before we start to think of cookies and milk for the Jolly Old Elf?
Merry Thanksmas everyone. Have a Bootiful day 🙂
Halloween’s a special time. It’s the time when the veil between our world and the afterlife is thinnest according to Celtic tradition. We dress in costume to fool the ghosts and ghouls who walk the earth for one night each year. So don your cloaks, get out your wands and keep you black cats close.
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From ghoulies and ghosties,
Long-leggety beasties, And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us. -Anonymous
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THE GHOST OF A FLOWER
“You’re what?” asked the common or garden spook
Of a stranger at midnight’s hour.
And the shade replied with a graceful glide,
“Why, I’m the ghost of a flower.”
“The ghost of a flower?” said old-time spook;
“that’s a brand-new one on me;
I never supposed a flower had a ghost,
Though I’ve seen the shade of a tree.”
-Anonymous
