Who's on the banner?

[Kitty]

This time it's Silent Animals from September '21!

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[Kitty]

In October, I used a Halloween picture from my Stories of Our Holidays book.

This month of November I decided to reuse BettyLou's November 2021 work. Here's the explanation:

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[Kitty]

Here is a repeat of BettyLouSpence's beautiful work.

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[Kitty]

This is more of a "What's on the Banner" situation.

This time I put up a May Day picture as our banner! Yes, it's early, but I love May Day so. I also decided to leave the entire picture up rather than crop it, because it is so magnificent.

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https://www.wpr.org/art/vintage-wiscons ... nd-maypole

In the above image, students dance around the Maypole at the May Fete on Bascom Hill around 1917. For many years, the school year concluded with the May Fete, an elaborate program of singing, dancing and celebrating outdoors. The Fete was discontinued when the nation entered World War I.

The May Day dance around the Maypole with colorful ribbons is an ancient custom. The Celts danced around a pole to ensure a bountiful planting season. The tradition’s pagan ties were tempered in the 19th century when the Victorians transformed it into a celebration of maidens and virtue. Communities still erect Maypoles with dancers celebrating spring, their ethnic heritage, or pagan fertility rites.

Maypoles were erected early in Wisconsin. Fur trader Therese Schindler, one of the rare female traders in the Great Lakes, recalled Maypoles on Mackinac Island and other French posts in the early 19th century. Snow often still covered the ground so the poles were often set in the ice. Notice of Maypole dances appear in newspapers in Racine, Eau Claire, Milwaukee, Janesville, Oshkosh and Madison throughout the 19th century and into the 20th. In 1903, the Racine Daily Journal recommended Maypole dancing as an “excellent scheme” for entertaining children at parties.

There was a link where it says "recalled Maypoles on Mackinac Island", but, unfortunately, it is a broken link.

[donnie]

Impressive banner!! I'm glad you didn't crop it.

I wonder who the man is seated in the immediate foreground. Is he like a judge or director of the event?

[Kitty]

I wonder who the man is seated in the immediate foreground. Is he like a judge or director of the event?

I don't know, exactly, but maybe it is the principal.

[donnie]

Notice the three men with tripod lower right. That looks like a movie camera.

[Kitty]

Notice the three men with tripod lower right. That looks like a movie camera.

It looks like a huge event. Could be news reporters.