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I was huddled next to the coffeemaker this morning when M. came into the kitchen and anounced that
Melville Avenue made the Boston Globe as the safest place to trick or treat on Halloween
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/10/29/dorchester_street_a_haven_for_halloween_revelers/
Her tone was a little ambivalent and I said it osunded like she wasn't entirely pleased about this.
"They had a picture of our street and it wasn't of our house...and he isn't even giving away full-sized candy bars."
Not having a response to that, here is the article.
Safe street a treat for revelers
In wary Hub, area a Halloween draw
By
Meghan E. Irons
Globe Staff / October 29, 2010
Melville Avenue in Dorchester might seem an unremarkable stretch of neatly kept Victorians and tended lawns, with the occasional picket fence. But the street,
tucked between the worn three-deckers of Fields Corner and Codman Square, has a prized quality: It is safe.
Each Halloween, hundreds — some say thousands — of costumed children come on foot and by the carload from nearby blocks and farther away in Mattapan and
Roxbury for what their parents worry they will not get at home: a night of trick-or-treating without fear of violence.
Throngs have come for years, turning Oct. 31 into an event that some residents prepare for with parties and huge caches of candy.
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Melville Avenue made the Boston Globe as the safest place to trick or treat on Halloween
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/10/29/dorchester_street_a_haven_for_halloween_revelers/
Her tone was a little ambivalent and I said it osunded like she wasn't entirely pleased about this.
"They had a picture of our street and it wasn't of our house...and he isn't even giving away full-sized candy bars."
Not having a response to that, here is the article.
Safe street a treat for revelers
In wary Hub, area a Halloween draw
By
Meghan E. Irons
Globe Staff / October 29, 2010
Melville Avenue in Dorchester might seem an unremarkable stretch of neatly kept Victorians and tended lawns, with the occasional picket fence. But the street,
tucked between the worn three-deckers of Fields Corner and Codman Square, has a prized quality: It is safe.
Each Halloween, hundreds — some say thousands — of costumed children come on foot and by the carload from nearby blocks and farther away in Mattapan and
Roxbury for what their parents worry they will not get at home: a night of trick-or-treating without fear of violence.
Throngs have come for years, turning Oct. 31 into an event that some residents prepare for with parties and huge caches of candy.
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