Tag: Halloween
Halloween and Hermit’s Cave
October 24, 2020[caption id="attachment_271748" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Kris Soffa as the "Woman in the Wilderness" at the Hermit's Cave. Photo by David Soffa.[/caption]
It’s Halloween, a normally festive holiday that’s been made even scarier by the pandemic. Lots of Halloween events have sadly been canceled this year out of care and caution; one of those was typically set in a very special place in Roxborough:
The Hermit’s Cave along the Wissahickon. Which amazingly was created by a Philadelphian who immigrated here from-- you can’t make this stuff up-- Transylvania.
You may have heard of the legend that a hermit lived in a cave…
Trick-or-Treating Through the Years
October 9, 2014By Ezra Tischler, Arts and PR Intern
[caption id="attachment_123980" align="alignleft" width="150"] Halloween hikers gather before heading out on a night walk (1977).[/caption]
The forest can be a scary place at night. Its unfamiliar sounds reach out from the darkness, telling a nocturnal tale we humans seldom hear. However, the nighttime forest is full of much more than fright. By the light of moon, the forest comes alive. Owls screech and hoot; frogs croak; skunks, raccoons, and opossums forage through the forest floor; bats flap about in search of something to eat. A wondrously active forest is born each night.
At the…
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