On 10/9/05, Glen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 03:01 PM 10/9/2005, skye wrote: > > >Just a thought/question on Halloween specifically: October 31st is a > >Monday, and thus it seems our entire town has agreed to celebrate > >Halloween on Saturday 29th (the flyers that are up for adult parties > >are all about Saturday parties). Not sure what the kids are doing. Is > >it normal for them to move halloween to the weekend if it's on a > >Monday? > > > >-- skye > > Hello Skye, > > As far as I know, Halloween itself is never moved. Many towns have a "trick > or treat" event on an alternate evening, which is the traditional "costumed
correct -- this is what I meant -- I didn't mean that they change the date of Halloween, but that sometimes halloween isn't celebrated on the day. Was it just last year that we had that big hubbub on the news about halloween being on a sunday and how that was *gasp* disrespectful to god or something along those lines? > I should mention that I'm in the USA, and this is how things are handled > here. Any alternative celebrations are determined locally, but the actual > date of Halloween is never moved. Perhaps it's done differently in Canada > or the UK? unless things have changed drastically (I used to live in Aust. but now live in the USA), the foreigners' understand that american halloween (which is what you celebrate if you want *free candy*) is on the 31st, and they would never dream of moving the date. ;) --s
