It starts with a parade. This year's theme: New Beginnings. Each of those little white flags below has the name of a kid born within the last year.
A nice counterpart to Brattleboro's Strolling of the Heifers: The Hefting of the Strollers. Those are our elected state officials - our Senator, Jeanette White, and our rep, Mike Mworicki.
Following the parade: my favorite a capella singing group, "Ladies Against Women". They only perform at events such as this. I'm in a chorus with two of the gals below and !! I have been invited to join them next year.
I couldn't be more thrilled. I'll need help assembling an outfit because my wardrobe is more of the jeans and t-shirts scene.
In the entrance to the church we have the vegetable art display.
Inside, there's a silent auction and an art show. Outside, while a whole chicken barbecue lunch is being served, two kids' races happen - this is the littler kids.
After lunch: save your leftover corn cobs, because we now have a game in which a cob on an old fashioned roller skate is sent down an inclined gutter...
... to be met by a child with an ax trying to chop it in half when it gets to the bottom. A community fair featuring the honoring of babies, political satire, and children given weapons...
...this is my kind of town.
Inside the sanctuary, a painting of this church as seen from its graveyard. Our house would be tucked in the nearer set of woods before the hills.
Heaven, Vermont style.
