Hellertown Brothers Hold Halloween Enjoyable with Pop-up Trick-or-Treat Station – Saucon Source

In the week main as much as trick-or-treating, shadows appear just a little colder, the carved jack-o-lantern in your entrance porch seems extra sinister and you are feeling extra suspicious of each little motion you see out of the nook of your eye. Halloween in Hellertown is the proper mixture of seasonal and spooky; sufficient to fulfill any fan of All Hallow’s Eve.

From 6 to eight p.m. this Friday, Hellertonians will courageous the chilly air in quest of goodies. The neighborhood behind the Hellertown Library attracts essentially the most crowds, the place trick-or-treaters can wind their manner via the residential space and cease by the Dewey Fire Department for a handful of candy treats from the firefighters. At the intersection of Magnolia and Maple roads you may depend on seeing Leo, Vincent and Dominic Behe–generally accompanied by associates and different siblings–handing out sweet from their pop-up type trick-or-treat station. The three brothers have turn out to be a well-recognized sight to trick-or-treaters, with a number of mother and father requesting a Saucon Source article highlighting their novel technique of distributing Halloween sweet. It took place when the Behe brothers first moved to a Hellertown condominium in 2020 and so they discovered themselves in an space that didn’t get many trick-or-treaters. Determined to affix the remainder of the group in giving out sweet, they needed to get inventive.

“Our first idea was just to buy a bunch of candy and then drive around town offering it to trick-or-treaters that we saw,” Vincent explains. “But you can see why that would look weird, especially to the kids’ parents… It only took us a minute or two to realize that we should park the car and give out candy like normal people!”

The brothers selected the intersection of Magnolia and Maple due to its central location, heavy foot site visitors and vast roads that would simply accommodate their parked automotive. A practice was born, with every successive Halloween setup just a bit extra full. Now, the brothers come ready with garden chairs, a ghoulish cauldron to carry the sweet and a rigorously curated playlist of songs with classics equivalent to “The Monster Mash,” “Thriller” and the Ghostbusters theme. 

Of course, it wouldn’t be Halloween with out costumes. Vincent saved it bizarre the previous two Halloweens by dressing as a giraffe. This 12 months, Leo plans to go the extra conventional route by handing out sweet whereas dressed as a personality from the favored anime Attack on Titan.

“Costumes now are much more oriented towards current popular culture,” Leo explains. “When I was growing up, they were more oriented towards general Halloween themes like witches, goblins and ghosts.” Leo has at all times had enjoyable each observing and creating costumes. “I remember going trick-or-treating as a traffic light when I was little,” he laughs. “I remember it because a car drove by and threw out candy for the kids, and I couldn’t pick it up because the costume prevented me from bending over far enough to reach the ground.”

A disaster befell in the course of the brothers’ 2024 Halloween sweet giveaway, when the availability ran out midway via the trick-or-treating interval. Thankfully an emergency group textual content to household and associates helped avert the disaster, as they stopped by the shop for additional provides. But the expense and occasional trouble of their unconventional Halloween sweet distribution is nothing in comparison with the enjoyable it gives, say the brothers.

“It costs $10 to buy the candy but it’s such a big deal, especially for the younger kids,” Leo explains. “My favorite memories are just all the times a kid looks like they won the lottery when I tell them they can take two candies.”

Dominic agrees, and particularly appreciates interacting with the trick-or-treaters. “I enjoy giving out candy even more than I did trick-or-treating, because you get to see the different personalities of the kids show through,” he says. “Some kids don’t even want to get close enough to take any, while others are turning the bowl upside down digging for the best pieces.”

Don’t overlook to bundle up this Friday and be part of your group on this 12 months’s trick-or-treating! And when you spot a giraffe and a titan-slayer on the nook of Magnolia and Maple, you aren’t seeing issues: it’s most likely simply the Brothers Behe as much as their standard Halloween tips.

Helen Behe is an MFA candidate at DeSales University, the place she is learning via this system’s poetry monitor for a level in inventive writing and publishing. Aside from her research, Helen enjoys gardening, boxing and rooting for the Philadelphia Eagles. She is a resident of Bethlehem. Read extra of Helen’s Then & Now collection right here.