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CityViewNC.com | 31 In the den, a miniature Halloween village is more delightful than frightful with tiny ceramic trick-or-treaters sharing the mantel with Frankenstein and his bride against a backdrop of Victorian pumpkin-bedecked homes. H alloween is all about the creepy, the crawly, the ghosts and the goblins. And then there's Judy Harrison's home, where there are so many thoughtful, spooky- cheerful touches that even the ghouliest of ghouls would have to smile. Halloween, like every other day here, is filled with all treats and no tricks. "I just love Halloween," she said. "It's all about the children. It goes back to my days teaching school and how excited the children were trying to decide what their costumes would be. Back then, children could wear their costumes to school, and we'd have a parade." Judy and Bill Harrison have deep roots in education. ey met when both were undergraduates majoring in education at then-Methodist College and married in 1975. Bill served as superintendent of the local school systems in Orange and Hoke counties, then they moved back to Fayetteville in 1997 when he began a 12-year tenure as superintendent of Cumberland County Schools. He went on to serve as chairman of the North Carolina Board of Education from 2009 through 2013 before serving as superintendent of Burlington-Alamance Schools. ese days he's an education leadership consultant. Judy, meanwhile, retired from teaching aer the Harrisons' own children, William and Caroline, were born. She went on to become everyone's favorite classroom mom, always the parent who volunteered to organize school parties, help tutor students in need, lead the Girl Scout troop and serve as Sunday school teacher. For years, Halloween has meant bringing out her copy of "e Widow's Broom," by Caldecott Medal-winning author Chris Van Allsburg, to read allowed to spellbound youngsters. BY KIM HAST Y PHOTOGRAPHY BY CINDY BURNHAM FEATURE Plenty of Treats, No Tricks, at this Halloween-Loving Home

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