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Oct 2018
21m 43s

Why Do We Celebrate Halloween?

Vermont Public
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Why do we celebrate Halloween? Who created this holiday? Where do pumpkins come from and why do we carve them? This week we're answering your Halloween questions with a professor of all kinds of scary and creepy things, Regina Hansen of Boston University. 
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