HoweEnterprise.com
October 19, 2020
Learn about antiques and collectibles with Georgia Caraway Howe Mercantile is ready for Howe -lloween and Fall. Isn’t Howelloween the perfect name for the Chamber and the Georgia Downtown Howe Caraway celebration of this holiday? In the last 5 years Howe has acknowledged this holiday in ways that allow children and adults to have fun with this spooky night and promotes safety for everyone. This year Howelloween falls on Saturday October 24th for the citywide event. There are going to be more than 70 vendors on Haning and O’Connell Streets. Although there are pagan connotations and religious opposition to Halloween, those issues evolved from customs dating back to the Celts, a tribal people who lived more than 2 millennia ago. The Celts held a Harvest Festival on October 31, Samhain, their most important religious holiday. Celts celebrated with dancing, bonfires, and feasting. Families honored their ancestors by preparing food and drink to make sure their “spiritual relatives (ghosts)” who walked among them that night were content and did not cause any harm. Some Celts donned costumes and masks to disguise themselves from evil-minded creatures. Invading Roman armies brought their own harvest festival and fused their celebration with Samhain. The British brought their beliefs to American in the form of All Saints’ (All Hallows) Day on November 1 and began to celebrate the day before as Hallows’ Eve or Even. With time this changed to October 31 and came to be known as Halloween. It is fun to decorate your home with Halloween and Fall décor.
Howe Mercantile has Amishmade cloth orange pumpkins that look great stacked in a bowl and other bowl stuffers—so cute!!. Pumpkins are part of the Thanksgiving holiday as well, so all of these decorative items can carry over through Thanksgiving until you are ready to decorate for Christmas. Yikes—is it really only 70 days until Christmas? Plan to dress up and bring your costume-clad children and grandchildren to downtown for Howelloween. There will be vendors giving out candy and other treats, entertainment, FUMC’s trunk or treat, and Howe Mercantile will be open with some special sales to start the three-month Holiday season off right. A special feature will be Bucky (Wayne Carlisle) and his Howemade goat milk soap from Bucky’s Goat Farm. He may even bring a goat or two. Come see us at Howe Mercantile, located in beautiful downtown Howe, Texas. Open Thursday – Saturday from 11-7 pm. Next door to HM is Don’s Smokehouse where you can pick up some Jerky or fantastic meat products to cook at home. There are two great restaurants right across the street, Abby’s and Gabrielas’, famous for homecooked meals. A terrific Chinese restaurant, Hana’s Café and Market, is located right behind them. And Palio’s Pizza is right down the street. Make a day and night of it, eating and shopping. Let Us Show You Howe. REMEMBER HOWELLOWEEN ON OCTOBER 24 FROM 2 UNTIL 8 PM. COME DOWNTOWN AND CELEBRATE SAFE TRICK OR TREATING WITH YOUR CHILDREN. DRESS FOR THE OCCASION.
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