Travel Blog

Seventeen years ago I stood on a street in Tokyo and watched a children's Halloween parade, amazed at the internationalization of the holiday.

Seventy years ago my mother, a young bride from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, opened the door of her new home in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, and was shocked to see little pirates and cowboys asking for candy. One hundred miles to the west, there was no such thing as trick-or-treat.