October 26, 1947 8 Harvest and Halloween

That’s Jerry Travis, 9, of Lake Geneva, Wis., amid the cornstalks on the cover in a photograph by Samuel Myslis. The corn harvest was down that year, thanks to bad weather, Parade reported, but “even so, there will be plenty of dried cornstalks and ripened ears of corn to go with the pumpkins, black cats and witches—the traditional symbols of Halloween.”