How beautiful it must have looked in the town of Webster , NY last night. I of course didn't realize this wonderful event was going to happen so I missed it but the pictures are wonderful.
I hope you were able to make it into the village last night, because it was an evening to remember.
For several glorious hours, the rains stayed away, allowing the regular Friday night concert to proceed. A couple hundred people came to hear the first-time gazebo appearance of
Barry’s Crossing, many of them setting up their chairs out of the late-afternoon sun under the big tent erected for the Webster Folk Festival.
After the concert, the evening became even more beautiful, when the local Relay for Life folks presented their Luminaria Ceremony.
This moving ceremony is normally held during the annual Relay for Life, which rainy weather washed out this year. In the ceremony, people light candles inside paper bags decorated with messages for loved ones who are fighting cancer right now, and who have lost that fight. When the ceremony is done at the Relay for Life, the bags are lined up all around the track, while everyone makes a memorial lap.
Last night, about 450 luminaria were lined up around Gazebo Park, up an alleyway to Main Street, down Main Street and North Avenue back to the park. Participants strolled through the village — accompanied by Sarah King of Barry’s Crossing singing “Amazing Grace” – pausing to read the names on the bags, remembering and praying.
The village positively sparkled.I’ve included a few photos below.
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ReplyDeleteMissy Rosenberry, a graduate of Cornell University, spent many of her post-college years in radio, advertising and public relations. After taking most of the 1990s off to have her three children, she is now a full-time teaching assistant for the Webster school district, and a part-time karate instructor. She and husband Jack have lived in the Webster/Penfield area with the kids for 11 years. She'd like to use her blog to help others learn more about the Webster community.
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