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Lesley
Pratt Bannatyne
9 Oliver St.
Somerville Massachusetts 02145
bannatyn@fas.harvard.edu
Lesley Bannatyne is an author
who writes on Halloween. She is also a Boston Globe
correspondent, covering stories ranging
from local druids to Tibetan immigrants to
bilingual education in Massachusetts. She
co-founded the Studebaker Theater (1978) and is
co-director of Invisible Cities Group (1990).
Bannatyne has shared her
knowledge of Halloween on television specials for
Nickelodeon and the History Channel ("The Haunted
History of Halloween"), with Time Magazine, and has
given talks at venues as diverse as the 2000
Halloween Convergence in New Orleans and the St.
Louis Art Museum. She contributed the Halloween
article to World Book Encyclopedia. Most recently, she set the Guinness World Record for "Largest Halloween Gathering," in October 2007 in Davis Square, Somerville. Lesley currently works at
Harvard University.
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