Spooky times at Heritage Square Museum

Oct. 30, 2010 11:32 AM PT

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More than 700 people turned out last weekend for Heritage Square Museum’s Halloween and Mourning Tours, which included a faux funeral procession led by Damian Stellabott, above, and stories inside the 1887 Hale House, right.

The event drew a portrait of how people in Victorian times coped with death:

Black clothes.

Mirrors covered with black cloth.

Photographs of dead loved ones styled to make the dearly departed look merely asleep.

Get more dark details in staff writer Mary MacVean’s article.

Or keep reading to see the museum’s plans for Halloween festivities ...

On Halloween, Heritage Square Museum will have trick-or-treating for children 1 to 12 with a parent. Festivities run from 4 to 7 p.m.

-- Mary MacVean

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Mary MacVean

Mary MacVean is the former Mind & Body editor at the Los Angeles Times. She’s a runner and a cook, and has worked at The Times as morning assignment editor, web liaison, food writer and copy editor. She was a national editor and writer focusing on food at the Associated Press and a features editor and a columnist in Moscow, where she also ran a children’s cooking school. She left The Times in 2015.