Halloween Countdown 2022 - Day Four

Our countdown continues with another 1910 postcard from Katherine to my great uncle, Charles. We have scores of postcards from Katherine in the archive but she never signed her last name, and to this day she remains a mystery woman to the family.  As usual she included a "friendly" message. 

Dear Friend, Charles: I sincerely hope you are enjoying life to the full extent. I suppose you will be out for mischief tomorrow night. Halloween is always the biggest night in the year for me. Katherine

I'm sure it was an appropriate message as Charles was a succcessful banker and life-long bachelor who was well known in the community for his mischief. 

With music by Cy Coleman and words by Carl Leight, here is Frand Sinatra's 1963 version of Witchcraft. 

And in closing here is a fitting poem about Halloween by Carl Sandburg from his Chicago Poems (1916).

I spot the hills

With yellow balls in autumn.

I light the prairie cornfields

Orange and tawny gold clusters

And I am called pumpkins.

On the last of October

When dusk is fallen

Children join hands

And circle round me

Singing ghost songs

And love to the harvest moon;

I am a jack-o’-lantern

With terrible teeth

And the children know

I am fooling.