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November 20, 1978

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Confessions of a Grownup Trick-or-Treater

Calvin Trillin

Calvin Trillin on the origins of the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, and why the New York neighborhood is particularly suited—in spirit and architecture—to celebrating the holiday.