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Piece Description
Visit the Halloween Outlet of Worcester, Massachusetts, and what you'll find are incredibly realistic portrayals of very unreal things -- a one-eyed monster chained to a rock, a headless body on life support, an aged first attendent trembling as he holds a brain on a silver tray. With this as a backdrop, Lesley Bannatyne, editor of the recently published "A Halloween Reader," explains how the holiday has remained true to its, umm, spirit over the centuries.
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Transcript
Halloween Script
QUOTE 1: (0:15) We started in 1989. We originally owned a paper and party goods store; then we started with a few Halloween things. We were a little late in the season so we couldn’t get a full array of costumes and things.
This is Janice Arvenakian. She and her husband founded the Halloween Outlet in Worcester, Massachusetts.
QUOTE 2 (0:17) And we were fortunate enough to meet somebody who sold us a bunch of factory seconds I guess you’d call them, costumes with holes in them and things like that and we hung them around our store and that was our beginning.
Now the store offers some 28,000 square feet of products that appeal to fright seekers of all ages. Christine Arvenakian, Janice’s daughter, also works in the store.
QUOTE 3: (0:08) And my mom would say you want this? It’s got a hole in it. And people would say it’s Halloween, I don’t care if...
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Musical Works
Gounod: Funeral March for a Marionette (Boston Pops, Arthur Fiedler) (BMG) excerpt: 1:30
Additional Files
- Lesley Bannatyne at the Halloween Outlet in Worcester, Mass. (Halloween.JPG)
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