History 21 The Podcast - 6.20 Anoka's Second Halloween Festival

So much goes into celebrating the FIRST year of the Anoka Halloween tradition in 1920. But it’s the SECOND year that really starts the tradition. Hear what the celebrations were like in 1921, and how it echoes our celebrations today.

Hosts Rebecca Desens, ACHS Executive Director, and Sara Given, ACHS Volunteer Coordinator

Anoka Halloween Inc

is a 100% volunteer based, non-profit 501(c)3 organization whose mission is to create a community based Halloween celebration while raising money for local student scholarships and elementary schools.

Learn more about this tradition, and the events happening all throughout October!

Anoka Halloween

Bonus:

The view from Rebecca’s door as the cows pass by

Anoka County Library Minute

Check out these scary titles for Halloween!

Juvenile Nonfiction

Horror in Minnesota by Jennifer Wendt (E133.1 WEN)

Juvenile Fiction

The haunted playground by R. J. Palacio (E PAL; Libby)
The bellwoods game by Celia Krampien (J FICTION KRA; Libby)
Can you escape a haunted museum? :an interactive paranormal adventure by Megan Cooley Peterson (J FICTION [YOU CHOOSE])
There's no way I'd die first by Lisa Springer (YA FICTION SPR; Libby)

Adult Nonfiction

Ghostly tales of Minnesota by Ruth D. Hein (133.1 HEI; Libby) (Minnesota Author)
Minnesota hauntings: ghost stories from the land of 10,000 lakes by Ryan Jacobson (133.1 JAC; Libby)

Adult Fiction

All hallows by Christopher Golden (FICTION GOL; Libby)
Haunted nights : a Horror Writers Association anthology by Lisa Morton (FICTION HAU; Libby)
My dark passenger by McKenzie Rae (HORROR RAE; Libby)
Halloween season by Lucy A. Snyder (FICTION SNY)
Kill creek: a novel by Scott Thomas (FICTION THO; Libby)
Exquisite corpses. Volume one by James Tynion, IV (GRAPHIC TYN; Libby)

Adult A/V