Everybody loves a parade
One of the great things about living in this part of North Carolina is wallowing in the seemingly bottomless pools of creativity that some of the residents here maintain. Folks in Chapel Hill, and to the same extent the sister communities of Carrboro and Hillsborough, are fairly well versed on environmental issues. And when these two characteristics combine, some pretty cool things happen.
For instance, this last weekend’s Friends of the Eno River Handmade Parade, in which schoolchildren and citizens get together to celebrate the local watershed by creating giant puppets and marching them down the street along with drum groups, stilt walkers and all sorts of similar visual candy. Here are some photos of some of the more interesting creations.
Praying Mantis Puppet
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Crazy Beaver hat
Generic bird and blue guy
Large white heron that actually looked more like a Gannet
There will be another parade next year. We’ll certainly be there!
all photos by Greg Swick
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This reminds me a lot of the May Day Parade in Minneapolis that is put on by In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater. http://www.hobt.org/mayday/index.html
@Kirk- Great link. You’re right, it’s very similar.
Hey, nice beaver!
Thanks. I just had it stuffed.
The mantis and night heron are awesome.
@Patrick- You take a big chance with that quote. But you take a chance getting up in the morning, crossing the street or sticking your face in a fan.
The mantis and heron were the best. But there was also a Pileated Woodpecker that we didn’t get a good shot of that was really cool also. It’s amazing what some people can do with cardboard, found items and paper mache.
Wow, that YCNH is wicked good!
Cool parade! If the St. Catharines Standard was covering it they would have identified the beaver as an otter!