One year Terry pretended to be an outside decoration
“It’s a fun time just seeing the different costumes, seeing the little kids come herve leger black around (trick-or-treating),” said Brian Woodcuff, of Lake Placid.
Katya Marshall, 16, of Lake Placid, said Halloween is “awesome” because she gets candy, there’s a dance hosted by the village police that she goes to, and she’s able to dress up — this year she’ll be a vampire bride.
Third, the holiday doesn’t have many of the stress inducers that are associated with other holidays, such as traveling, cooking for a large number of people and purchasing gifts — but it does involve decorating one’s house should one should choose to do so.
Alice and Terry have gone all out decorating their house this year as they have done every year for past 25 years with neon green, orange and white cobwebs clinging to the front deck railing and stretching across the front yard that is dotted with skeleton, headstone, ghost and spider decorations.
“(We do this) for the kids,” Alice said. “We like seeing kids here, coming for trick-or-treating instead of out doing things they shouldn’t be doing, and they look forward coming here because we play the music and … have the different things going on for spookiness. One little girl cornered us in the mall in Plattsburgh, she came up to us and she said, ‘I’m coming to your house first thing because last year I couldn’t get there ‘cause your candy was all gone.’”
Alice said they sometimes try to scare the trick or treaters. One year Terry pretended to be an herve leger skirt outside decoration, laying limp at the bottom of the stairs and he would start to move and talk once trick or treaters were leaving the house.
“They were scared,” Terry said, chuckling. “Some kids wouldn’t even come back the next year.”
“We’re just out having fun like they are, enjoying it,” Alice said.
They said every year they try to add to the decorations to make it a bigger and better decoration display than the previous year.
A survey conducted by the NRF in October found that the most popular costumes for adults are a witch, pirate, vampire, zombie and Batman. For children it’s a princess, witch, Spiderman, pirate and pumpkin.
Many of those the News spoke with weren’t planning on sporting the more popular costumes this year.
Montana Preston, 14, of Lake Placid, said she will be a referee. Taylor Barney, 12, of Lake Placid, said she will be a person from the 80s. Joe Evanek, of Lake Placid, said he will not be dressing up, but his two 2-year-old daughters will be a princess and Little Red Riding Hood. Kiefer Casler, 14, of Wilmington said he doesn’t know what he will be for Halloween, but he knows what he will be doing.
“I usually carve pumpkins with the family, hang a ghost outside the house and then go trick-or-treating with friends,” he said. “I just like having fun with friends and family.”
Vic Schmeer, of Lake Placid, said he likes seeing others enjoying Halloween.
“It was part of what we did as kids and it’s nice to see them enjoying it, too,” he said.
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