I spent Halloween 2004 at this place, and it was literally the best day of my life, never to be topped again. I was enjoying my first autumn back in Massachusetts with all my friends (after going to college in Michigan for five years). The Red Sox had just won the first World Series in 86 years. The weather was perfect. John Kerry was going to win the election in three days. Life could not be better!

(Obviously, three days later, the world all came crashing down….)