Darren Madigan

Hallowe'en never really meant that much to me when I was a kid... well, not when I was a teenager, anyway. I was born in late 1961.  My childhood, as it turned out, was one of above average mobility -- not as rootless as that of a military brat, certainly, but due to the vagaries of my single parent mom's social life, as well as our extreme poverty, we tended to move around a lot.  We didn't cover a lot of geographical distance... I don't think I ever left Western New York State until I was an adult (other than…