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Susannah Siger

Oct 30, 2026

39:26
So give us a preview of that.
39:28
This is something that has gone on for decades.
39:31
So you can imagine that there are families with trophies lined up on their mantles for... each of their kids because we have age categories and then within each age category there are three categories to win these ginormous trophies so it's pretty exciting for the kids and the families and the focus really is on creativity, some conceptual art happens and you just have contraptions built.
40:04
Say the little kid wants to be a firefighter.
40:07
Well, of course, there's the costume, but then you have to have the fire truck for them to sit inside as well.
40:13
So you have giant pirate ships, you have fortune tellers inside the fortune teller booth walking around.
40:22
I think the very first toddler that I saw that really made me smitten by Halloween in Hamden was sitting in a wagon and in the middle of a giant bowl of spaghetti and the kid had a big meatball on its head with a fork sticking into it.
41:54
We're going to talk about another one in a little bit.

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