Halloween in Fells Point

Post by Joe

Approximately seven weeks ago, I had the opportunity to visit the city of Baltimore and take part in a local holiday known locally as Halloween.

Halloween celebrations in Baltimore are centered in the neighborhood of Fells Point, and the festivities consist of roughly 5,000 people, mostly between the ages of 20 and 40, dressing in ridiculous costumes and trying to drink their weight in alcohol.  It is a somber holiday indeed.

I would, at this point, regale you with tales of my own personal experience with Baltimore’s Halloween.  Unfortunately, I can’t.  I don’t remember them.  You see, I woke the morning after Halloween with a headache, dry mouth, a feeling of exhaustion, and almost total amnesia for the entire previous evening.  It was the same for many of the people in my group.  Over breakfast, we attempted to piece together just what had happened that night, but we failed.  What strange witchcraft is this?

It was then that I remembered my camera!  A small disposable one that I had purchased the day before, in hopes of documenting what took place.  But had it survived the evening?  And if so…  had I even remembered to use it?

I raced back to the hotel.  Or at least I tried to race.  My headache from the morning was with me still, and it hindered my progress.  But never the less, I made it back to the room and, once there, quickly found my camera.  24 exposures gone.  I had remembered!  To the developer!

Hours past, and the anxiety built.  Questions swirled about my head:  What had happened to me.  To us?  What would the photos reveal?  What could possibly be on the roll?

Finally it was time to retrieve my pictures.  “Inside this envelope,” I though, “is my only chance to learn what happened…”  And so, with trembling hands, I opened the package….

TO BE CONTINUED!!