As Halloween approaches, I think again about trick or treating in Danvers when I was young, and the year that my father startled us with his goon costume.
Here's a good photo of the costume (with Nick inside):
Please read the story I wrote about my first encounter with this huge creature. I wrote it in 2007 and it was published in the Danvers Herald in October 2008. You can now read it in this blog: https://rememberingdanvers.blogspot.com/2008/10/halloween-independence.html