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halloween: Other Worldly Weekends - West Overton Museum, Scottdale, PA
- 10/21/10 03:35 AM
If you are looking for something really different for a Halloween Experience I suggest you try the Otherworldly Weekend event at West Overton Museum in Scottdale, PA.
West Overton is a unique spot celebrating a unique marriage of industry and distilling. The site is dedicated to preserving the history of Abraham Overholt's Old Overholt rye whisky distillery which was actively producing quality rye by 1803. Abraham's daughter married John Frick in 1847 and their child was Henry Clay Frick. Henry founded a coal and coke production dynasty and became an intimate confidant and partner (and later bitter enemy) of Andrew Carnegie. … (2 comments)
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halloween: Halloween History & HallowBoo at Idlewild Park
- 10/20/10 03:30 AM
Hallowe'en, a Scottish contraction of the term All Hallows Evening is a rather ancient tradition with both pagan and Christian roots. In the Celtic tradition it represents a fall festival called Samhain, denoting the end of "longer days" and the commencement of "darker days". It was thought that at this breakpoint in seasonal cycles the barriers between the living and spirits worlds became "thin". Lighting of bonfires and donning of masks were thought to protect one by warding off less kindly spirits.
In the Christian tradition the feasts, festivals and religious celebrations of All Saints Day, and the following All Souls Day, celebrate not … (0 comments)
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If you are looking for something really different for a Halloween Experience I suggest you try the Otherworldly Weekend event at West Overton Museum in Scottdale, PA. 
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