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To Trick, To Treat, Or To Not

I have some really cool memories of my childhood. My church was one of those that always did a straight up haunted house for Halloween when I was really young. Too young actually to be allowed to go through it so I would sneak in and immediately regret that decision because it was scary! I also remember going Trick or Treating! Would you like to know the houses we would always go to outside of family??? My parent’s church family that didn’t have young children. Because those folks were the ones home. Nell and Arlie Lawson and Dean Stinnett (Dock’s Motel) come to mind first. I remember where the Lawson’s lived and most everyone knows about Dock’s Motel (we used to go swim there in the summer also) if you lived in Townsend. I always wanted to go to my Aunt Bug’s house because she had the scariest stuff. From Uncle Avery dressing up like a scarecrow and sitting so still on the front porch until you got your candy and then he would jump up and chase you to the car, to the flying gho