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THE FOLLOWING INFORMATIOMSI
FRIDAY - SUNDAY OCT.3l\0i
True spirit of
Halloween a
thing of the past
I ’m sick and
tired of the ex
ploitation of
the joyous Hal
loween season by
the Prince of
Darkness. Folks,
you know I‘m
talking about the
root of all evil —
it’s the almighty
dollar, and it’s de
stroying another
wholesome Amer
ican tradition.
Chris
Martin
columnist
Oldest house in Bryan rumored to be haunted
By Rhonda Reinhart
Staff writer
Long ago, way before the Interna
tional Sugar, Plastic and Glow-in-the-
Dark Solidarity Union conspiracy, Hal
loween was a time families everywhere
could come together and worship Dark
Lord Satan. But no, these days it’s all
about the candy and the costumes and
the trick-or-treating and the snack food
sweepstakes. It makes me want to puke
on my Marilyn Manson T-shirt.
Luckily, in this age of Taco Bell mon
ster-eyeball straws and pimple cream
smelling teenage vampire slayers, there
are a few real monsters still under the
bed. So gather up your loved ones, light a
black candle and join me in the tradi
tional reading of ...
The Top Five Scariest and/or Most Evil
Things in the Whole World
5. Ronald McDonald: I’m not one to
tear down great American heroes, but if
you knew this guy who worked down at
the local fast-food place had a big red
afro, clown makeup and could magically
pop up in little kids’ bedrooms when their
parents shut the door, you would be very
afraid. That’s all I’m saying.
4. Mr. Rogers: I had a dream once
where Mr. Rogers would drive around the
land of make-believe at night picking up
hitchhikers. When they got back to his
place, he would unlace his little canvas
shoes, open the closet and put on a pair
of fishnet hose and black thigh boots.
“It’s you I like,” he would sing.
Please see Martin on Page 6.
A tombstone in the garden may sound like
a prop from “The Addams Family,” but for
Dorothy and Paul Van Riper, it is just an
other fixture in the backyard.
The Ripers live at 713 E. 30th St., in what has
been called by residents of Bryan the most no
torious haunted house in the area.
Although no supernatural sightings have
ever been reported, the house’s reputation as a
ghostly haven has lived on for decades.
The tales of haunting may be traced to a
tombstone that sits behind the house, a
tombstone dating back to the house’s origi
nal owners.
The two-story, 13-room house was built
around 1880 by W.R. Cavitt, a lawyer, banker
and long-time member of the Texas A&M
board of directors.
Paul Van Riper, a professor of political science
at Texas A&M, said Howard Cavitt, the third of
six Cavitt children, was the first of the Cavitt fam
ily to die. Howard was killed in the great flood of
1913 and was bur ied in the Bryan cemetery with
a small granite headstone marking his grave.
Van Riper said when the Cavitt mother died
the next year, the family obtained a large plot in
the cemetery, redesigned the headstones and set
them in a quadrangle around a large center
marker stone.
“Howard’s original stone, which no longer
matched the new family design, was replaced
with a new stone and taken to the Cavitt gar
den...and placed there as a memorial,” he said.
“Of course, there wasn’t then and never has been
any body under the stone in the garden.”
The old Cavitt house is located across the
street from Stephen F Austin Junidr High.
Paul Van Riper said students cutting through
the Cavitt property on their way to school might
be the creators of the haunted house stories.
The Cavitts lived in the house for almost 100
years. The last of the Cavitt children moved out
of the house in the early 1970s, and in 1981, the
Citizens for Historical Preservation bought the
house from the estate and sold it to Becky and
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While vacant, the house was neglected and
The old Cavitt house located in Bryan has a
tombstone in the garden and may be haunted.
the garden became overgrown.
Vandals broke into the house many times,
and over the years, the tombstone was alter
nately stolen and returned.
Please see House on Page 6.
Local woman gives pumpkins Aggie spirit
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By Travis Irby
Staff writer
A local woman is bringing
some ‘gourd-geous’ cre
ations to A&M faithfuls.
Cindy Ingram, a College Station
hairstylist, recently has been li
censed by Texas A&M Uni
versity to carve Univer-
sity-related logos into pumpkins.
“I had been doing this unoffi
cially for about four years,” In
gram said.
Ingram said the sojourn into
squash art came about as a deco
rating assignment for the Aggie
Diehards club.
“My father is a
member of Aggie
Diehards,” In
gram said,
.“So at the
SMU game
j in San An-
jtonio a few
years back,
we needed
decora
tions for a
banquet. I
carved some
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Cindy Ingram of College Station turned her pumpkin-carving
hobby into a business. She is licensed to carve A&M logos.
signs into some pumpkins.”
Mary Jane Mielender, an Aggie
Diehards member, said she was im
pressed with Ingrams pumpkins.
Ingram said the pumpkin carv
ing then became a hobby.
“Everyone thought they were
just great,” Mielender said. “The
pumpkins and Aggie images really
go hand and hand.”
Still for a while after that, In
gram’s pumpkin carving remained
a hobby.
“I would give the pumpkins to
friends and use them for Aggie
Diehards’ functions,” Ingram said.
“I hadn’t ever really thought about
profiting from them.”
After encouragement from
family and friends, Ingram decid
ed to apply for a University-ap
proved license to make her hobby
a business.
“People in the Aggie Diehards
were saying what a great idea the
pumpkins were, and I should start
selling them," Ingram said.
Ingram received permission to
use the A&M logo and other Uni
versity symbols this fall and has al
ready started coming up with new
designs for next year.
Designs appearing on the
pumpkins include the standard
block‘T’ and A&M’ logo, “OT Sarge,”
“Gig’em” sign and many more.
Ingram said the designs orig
inally were not intended for
pumpkins.
“Well the four designs I original
ly used, I adapted from patterns 1
used in haircuts,” she said.
Ingram plans to extend her
carvings into other mediums.
“I am also going to carve mel
ons in addition to pumpkins,” In
gram said. “I’ve already done
some watermelons.”
Please see Pumpkins on Page 6
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