The Bergen County Historical Society presents All Hallows’ Eve: Songs of Love, Death, and the Supernatural on Saturday October 29th (Rain Date Sunday, October 30th) 2 pm- 3:30 pm at Historic New Bridge Landing, 1201 Main Street River Edge, NJ.

Halloween as we know it today did not exist before the 1870s. But the roots of Halloween reach back centuries into our past—to All Hallows’ Eve and ancient holidays and rituals, superstitions, and folklore. For at its core, the beliefs and observances that preceded Halloween were about the deepest mysteries of life—about life and death, things seen and unseen, and occurrences we can’t explain. Many cultures held that the spirits of our ancestors walked abroad in the land at this time, when the veil between this world and the next was the thinnest—whether they called it Le Jour des Morts, Dia de los Muertos, or Samhain.

Balladeers Anne and Ridley…