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The Dragon Goes a Visiting:

The famed Sunset Park Dragon escaped to St. Matthew’s Parish School in Pacific Palisades to meet the Dragon Writer, Cornelia Funke, and greet students. The dragon bellowed smoke while waiting in the school grounds for his friends to arrive. photo by Margaret Molloy

Traditionally, the Sunset Park dragon wanders the neighborhood in the vicinity of Grant school and greets trick-or-treaters on Halloween night (photo is Halloween 2005).

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