ROCKLAND, Mass. —
For 20 years, the children of one Massachusetts town largely celebrated Halloween night without trick-or-treating.
We went digging into the WCVB archives to revisit Rockland, Massachusetts, in the mid-1970s, when town leaders placed an unofficial ban on the traditional revelry.

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