Athens Halloween to see big changes this year

Now in its 46th year, Athens’ big Halloween block party — apocryphally referred to as the “Mardi Gras of the Midwest” — is set to see some changes this weekend. While the block party started as an unlawful takeover of uptown Athens by intoxicated and rowdy Ohio University students and others in 1974, it has become a tradition in the small southeastern Ohio college town, drawing thousands of costumed visitors to stalk the bricks of Court Street. Over […]
Source: The Daily Jeff – News from Camberidge OH