The late-afternoon sun shines through the trees as families stroll downtown. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RING
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Washington Street belonged to trick-or-treaters Thursday afternoon. Police closed it to cars from the bottom of Pleasant Street to Rockaway Street, and closed Summer Street too, for the Marblehead Chamber of Commerce’s Trick-or-Treating in the Business Districts. Families walked down the middle of the road, and shopkeepers handed out candy from their doorways.
Two children in inflatable chicken suits made their way through the crowd. One trick-or-treater came as a claw machine, stuffed animals and all, and a family of train engineers brought along its youngest in a homemade No. 43 locomotive.
St. Michael’s Church held its Halloween Spooktacular from 4 to 7 p.m. with crafts, games and food, and the Marblehead Family Fund and Marblehead Museum filled the Jeremiah Lee Mansion garden at 161 Washington St. with carved and painted pumpkins for their 18th annual Pumpkin Illumination.
Halloween is Saturday. Police strongly recommend trick-or-treating between 5 and 8 p.m. and ask drivers to slow down and watch for children.
Two trick-or-treaters in inflatable chicken costumes make their way down the street, one waving to the crowd, during the Marblehead Chamber of Commerce’s Trick-or-Treating in the Business Districts on Thursday. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RINGA trick-or-treater dressed as a claw machine, stuffed animals inside, waves while walking downtown. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RINGA girl dressed as Elsa holds hands with an adult as trick-or-treaters fill the street downtown. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RINGA family dressed as train engineers poses downtown, the youngest wearing a homemade No. 43 locomotive. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RINGA child dressed as Spider-Man and a friend in a cat mask smile for the camera. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RINGA child in a shark costume collects candy at the doorway of Marblehead Mercantile. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RINGA volunteer hands out treats to costumed children outside Grace Community Church. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RINGChildren in costume walk past a greeter in a bonnet and apron near the St. Michael’s Church Halloween Spooktacular sign. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RINGA boy dressed as an excavator and a girl with monarch butterfly wings walk with an adult outside St. Michael’s Church. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RINGFamilies fill a decorated hall during the Halloween Spooktacular at St. Michael’s Church, which ran from 4 to 7 p.m. with crafts, games and food. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RINGA Cookie Monster pumpkin sits among the entries at the 18th annual Pumpkin Illumination in the Jeremiah Lee Mansion garden. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RINGPumpkins decorated as glowing fairy houses are displayed at the Pumpkin Illumination. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RINGChildren play drums on a parachute on the lawn during the Pumpkin Illumination. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RINGA toddler points at bubbles during the Pumpkin Illumination. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / KATIE RING
