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Boos & Brews celebrates All Hallows’ Eve
The crab feast party spends most of the night dancing to the music of Hot Sauce Band at Lewes Historical Society Boos & Brews event. RON MACARTHUR PHOTOS
October 31, 2022
A large crowd, many in costume, enjoyed the splendor of a perfect autumn evening Oct. 28 at the Lewes Historical Society’s Boos & Brews.
The event featured food from J & B Grilling, beverages from Dogfish Head Brewery, music by Hot Sauce Band, readings from an oracle, stories from period-dressed society re-enactors and a costume contest.
Proceeds from the event benefit historical society educational and preservation programs. Sponsors included the Lee Ann Wilkinson Group, Dogfish Head Beer & Benevolence and Bibilon Used Books & Rare Finds.
Welcome to the Lewes Historical Society Boos & Brews Oct. 28 at their historical complex campus. The event featured music, food and drink, story telling and a Halloween costume contest.
Dracula and Sprinklebell are Robert and Judith English of Lewes.
David Aman, maestro of Hot Sauce Band, is dressed for the occasion as he performs at Boos & Brews.
We think it’s Hot Sauce Band member Jimmy Davis under that sugar skull mask.
Competing in the Halloween costume contest are (l-r) Kierstein Campbell and Jane and Joe Endrich of Bishopville, Md.
Mike Shockley is percussionist for Hot Sauce Band.
From left, Bill Kneass, Patrick Kneass and Brandon Kauffman wear their Halloween finest as they attend the event.
Thing 1 and Thing 2 are Dan and Lora Vimont of Lewes.
Janet and Jimmy Hagan, left, and Robert Tomko and Nancy LaMotte of Fenwick Island are celebrating the season dressed as Day of the Dead revelers.
Douglass Mowrey of Chadds Ford, Pa., steals the show with a lighted jellyfish costume.
Jim Miller plays a mean trumpet for the Hot Sauce Band.
Deb Hansen of Lewes is dressed as a flying grandfather’s clock, which was one of the most original costumes at the event.
Gathering around the fire, Boos & Brews attendees use all the fixings provided by historical society volunteers to make s’mores.
A large crowd gathers at the Lewes Historical Society complex in downtown Lewes to eat and drink at Boos & Brews.
There is just enough light to show off the exterior of the Rabbit’s Ferry House (c. 1740) in the historical complex.
Historical society re-enactors tell ghost stories inside the Rabbit’s Ferry pub.
Dogfish Head staff man a booth offering their seasonal ales to partygoers.
The Lewes Historical Society’s Burton-Ingram House has its own Halloween glow. The building dates back to the late 18th century.
