Indonesian pride

October 6, 2019May 20, 2019 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

The annual Indonesian festival in Somersworth includes a parade representing a few of the nation’s 17,000 islands.

Morris men in a ring at the autumn equinox

September 21, 2019May 20, 2019 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

The Pinewood Morris Men continue a festive dance style from the late middle ages in rural England. The performers wear costumes specific to their troupe, including bells, and often wield sticks or handkerchiefs in their routines. This group frequently appears in Boston Revels’ events throughout the year. Here they are greeting concertgoers to last fall’s equinox RiverSing in the Herter Park amphitheater along the Charles River in Allston.

View from the outdoor stage

September 8, 2019May 20, 2019 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

Rosi Amador and Brian Amador of the pan-Latin ensemble Sol y Canto joined us on the stage of the Herter Park amphitheater along the Charles River in Allston. Boston Revels hosts events throughout the year to enhance community through folk traditions. This scene from last fall’s equinox RiverSing.

When the imagination takes flight

August 25, 2019May 20, 2019 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

Picnickers waiting for the beginning of our annual RiverSing show add to the festival feeling. Boston Revels hosts events throughout the year to enhance community through folk traditions. This scene from last fall’s equinox concert in the Herter Park amphitheater along the Charles River in Allston.

Summer sunset

August 4, 2019May 20, 2019 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ 2 Comments

Here’s a view from our dorm at Castleton University in Vermont, where New England Yearly Meeting of Friends is gathering for its 359th annual sessions. The clouds stretch back into Upstate New York and Lake George.

They sound like happy fireworks

July 28, 2019May 20, 2019 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

The street drum band aNova Brazil joined us last fall to help celebrate the cleanup of the Charles River two decades earlier. Here they are warming up for the Boston Revels’ equinox RiverSing last fall at the Herter Park amphitheater along the Charles River in Allston. They later fired up the procession down to the stage and performed several unbelievably complex and infectious numbers. They’re a hard act to follow, but we did it. Boston Revels hosts events throughout the year to enhance community through folk traditions.

Whale tail over the indoor pool

June 12, 2019June 11, 2019 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

Marti, a 26-foot-long, 10-foot-high whale tail sculpture, is shown being installed last week on top of Dover’s indoor swimming pool. The artwork by Dale Rogers of Haverhill, Massachusetts, is the crowning touch to the city’s Adventure Playground in Henry Law Park beside the Cocheco River..

Be the church

April 21, 2019December 8, 2018 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

These T-shirts worn by members of Durham Community Church (UCC) at a Jericho Walk around the federal building in Manchester uphold the perspective of the church as the body of believers rather than the house of worship or the organizational structure. This was at a vigil opposing the deportation of refugees.

Welcome spring!

March 20, 2019March 19, 2019 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

It’s not yet warm enough for New Englanders to return to the outdoors quite like this, but we’re feeling the stirrings. Many of the Boston Revels’ performances celebrate the changing seasons, and the annual Spring Sing concert just took place in the United Methodist church in Watertown, Massachusetts. This scene with Mother Goose preparing to float toward the stage is from last fall’s equinox RiverSing in the Herter Park amphitheater along the Charles River in Allston.

The kids in the procession were lots of fun. We had two excellent children’s choirs participating.

I’d still take the room atop the tower

March 10, 2019December 8, 2018 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ 2 Comments

I can easily imagine a large extended family like Cassia’s living in a big house like this. Throw in a constant array of guests, too. If it were only pink, like the one in my novel What’s Left!