Images

Apple bobbing - a popular ritual on Halloween. Photograph by Caleb Zahnd, 2007.

An assortment of carved pumpkins in Keene, New Hampshire, USA. Photograph by John Phelan, 2013.

Oliver the Skeleton, friend and close companion of Joshua J. Mark, relaxing on the front lawn during Halloween season.

"Grammy" and "Shabadoo", named for the characters on the show Futurama, close friends of Joshua J. Mark, relaxing in the front yard in 2025 as they celebrate Halloween.

Wabanaki raid on Deerfield in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during Queen Anne's War. By Walter Henry Lippincott, circa 1900, from the New York Public Library Digital Collection.

The English raid the Wabanaki settlement at Grand Pre in Acadia in 1704 during Queen Anne's War. By Hezekiah Butterwort, 1885.

French explorer and military officer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (1661-1706). By an unknown artist, oil on canvas, from the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.

Likely a portrait of Francis Nicholson, an English colonial administrator around the time of Queen Anne's War (1702-1713). By Michael Dahl, circa 1710. From the Maryland state archives.

Philip of Anjou is crowned King of Spain in November 1700 (and so becomes Philip V of Spain), setting off the War of the Spanish Succession. By François Gérard, early 19th century, oil on canvas. (Château de Chambord Collection)

A London pamphlet about the arrival of the so-called Four Mohawk Kings, circa 1710.