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Strangely dressed people pose for the camera around 7 pm as the annual Halloween block party on Court Street gets started. If you tell anybody in the state of Ohio that you are from Athens there is about a 50% chance they will mention the Halloween block party and some personal experience related to it. People come from all over to attend and if the weather is good there will be standing room only on this part of the street by 10 pm.
There have been efforts to organize and control the party over the years but it remains essentially a spontaneous event that lumbers through town as it pleases every year. Fortunately mostly a good-natured event as can be seen on the faces of the crowd. Local officials breath a sigh of relief for that.