It was the custom to send gifts of food for the president’s Thanksgiving meal. President Calvin Coolidge (whose pet was Blacky…
If the backyard was all toil, where did Americans have fun? In the front yard on the front porch. With…
An Apple! When trick-or-treating started in the 1930s and 1940s, neighbors handed out anything and everything: homemade cookies, pieces of…
Pranks and More Pranks In the United States, Halloween started out as mostly trick with very little treat. On Halloween…