Back Porch Tales & Travels

Halloween in Rural America: Back When Tricks Came Before Treats

Oct 21

Before Halloween meant candy and store-bought costumes, rural America had its own ways of celebrating. From Appalachian haints and haunted hollers to Midwestern outhouse tipping and New England's Cabbage Night, join John W. Peace II for three minutes of history, mountain humor, and old-fashioned Halloween mischief.

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