| May 20, 2000 was the occasion of our village's centennial. The residents celebrated with a colorful parade, speeches, a maypole dance, excerpts from Gilbert and Sullivan, songs from 1900, and a pig roast at day's end. Even though the sky often drizzled and spit, few spirits were dampened.
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Helga and Burley as who? -- Maid Marion and Little John? Queen Sadie is in the background while Lady Mary holds the standard.
Click here to see my letter from Sunday, May 21. |
Costumes
and horses -- Henry, Emily, Lilah, and Jason are ready to ride. |
Were
their umbrellas in Medieval Europe? Queen Sadie listens while Dame
Stephanie orders the revelers. |
Betty
teaches art at a private school. This mask of paper mache and plastic
foam on a wire frame only took her about three hours to fabricate. |
Here's
how followers of the Single Tax Movement might have looked a hundred
years ago. |
Tegan
and Rowan. |
Bob,
one of many people who have welcomed us the Arden, with my wife,
who celebrated her birthday that day. |
Hank and
Nathan as 1900 newsboys (who have sold all their papers). |
Jane and
Tom have been known to fool around. |
One
hundred years ago women did not have the vote. They did in Arden..
Here we see Joy, Tom, Elizabeth, Nancy, and Dale. |
Wendy and
David are active Ardensingers. |
The Ragged
Band -- Sharon on fiddle; Evelyn (who abandoned her fiddle to hold
music and an umbrella); Marguerite on drum; Andie, Rusty, and Hardy
on recroders; and Darryl on guitar. |
Cassidy
and Bea know where it's at. Groovy. |
ACRA
is the Arden Community Recreation Association, which sponsors many
family-oriented events, such as a program for children given free
every summer, every morning for five days a week for six weeks.
What a community that such things are done by volunteers! The elegant
damsel in lavender (at left, holding the basket) is Lady Beverley
Fleming. |
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If
girls dream of being bold, will boys dream of being in distress?
What a silly question, not one that bothers Emily or her proud steed. |
Frank The
Fool tries to lead the trumpeters, who give him their dazed attention.
The trumpeters are Walter, Ken, Allan, Oliver and Carl. |
We know
what May Poles look like but what do November Poles look like? |
Queen
Sadie (Lady Somerville) and King George.
"Long live the King!" |
Walter,
Allan, and some fool (Frank) whose name we shall never reveal. |
Gilbert
and Sullivan musicals were popular one hundred years ago and still
are in Arden. |
Allan
with one of the horns he bought at a Delaware Music School garage
sale. |
A
young girl (Tegan) gathering flower petals. |
Liz, pawservant
of the dog of all dogs, Merlin. Click here
to see the clever critter's website. Under the hat is master-chef
extraordinaire, Laura. (See my Cinco de Mayo
page.) |
The
day ended with a pig roast for 250 people at the Gild Hall.
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