TransAtlantic Halloween

Is the Halloween experience the same on both sides of the Atlantic?

When I was a kid growing up in Britain (not very recently I'm afraid)
I don't remember it as much of a big deal. In fact, what we really got
excited about was Guy Fawkes (sometimes called Bonfire Night) on
the 5th November. There was even a little song

Remember, remember the Fifth of November
Gunpowder treason and plot

For those of you who don't know the history behind it.
There was big Catholic/Protestant divide in England
400 years ago and a group of Catholics plotted to blow up
the Houses of Parliament when the King was inside. One
of the plotters warned a friend not to attend and that was the
end of that. The conspirators were hung, drawn and quartered
and we got a new celebration (giving thanks that the life of
the King had been saved).

Anyway, we usually had a great evening with fireworks, a
bonfire, toffee apples and a guy (an effigy of the leading
conspirator, Guy Fawkes). You were supposed to make a guy
out of old clothes and some kind of filling material but it was
usually easier to dress up your smallest friend and put a mask
on them. Then you wheeled the guy around shouting
"Penny for the guy". The proceeds were used to buy fireworks
(or chocolate!).

I think nowadays the colonisers have been colonised and we
are making more of Halloween following the American custom
of Trick or Treating and dressing up in costumes.

Perhaps we will even start celebrating Thanksgiving one day!