Every Porch in Our Town Lights a Pumpkin for a Man Who Never Came Home

Row of glowing jack-o'-lanterns on porches along a dark Vermont street, small town halloween story

Every small town Halloween story I ever heard as a kid was about our own town, and every one of them was about Walter Pell. In Halden, Vermont, every porch lights a jack-o’-lantern on October 31st so Walter can find his way home. My family was the only one that didn’t, and the town made … Read more