The first known mention of trick-or-treating in print in North America occurred in 1927 in Blackie, Alberta, Canada? The American Maze Company, led by Don Frantz, pioneered bringing the art of the maze to America and to the cornfield in 1993. The maze was constructed in order to fit in the back lawn of an English manor? The Jack-O-Lantern, a tradition believed to have come from Ireland, where they used to carve faces into turnips, beets and other root vegetables as part of the Gaelic festival of Samhain? |