Albany once went all out for a Halloween carnival -- and ended up going too far

posted Oct 31, 2018

The latest short history video from the State Museum is about the time Albany went all out for Halloween -- so much so that the festival ended up being cancelled because, a someone would later recall, "revelry got out of hand" .

(The clip is embedded above -- you can watch it without sound.)

Earlier
+ "Never before, nor since, has this old Dutch city seen such Hallowe'en revelry"
+ Friends of Albany History: The Great Albany Halloween Carnival of 1905
+ The Weebermobile

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Like the precursor of (what happened with) Kegs n Eggs.

... said Danielle Sanzone on Oct 31, 2018 at 3:26 PM | link

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