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Educational speakers held panels every night as part of the Light Science Talks showcase. Entertainment along the 1.5-mile route included the Flash Bang Band and Misty Krewe of Nimbus. [4] During the COVID-19 pandemic, festival organizers pivoted to a 'socially distanced' version of the event with the "Portland Winter Light (non)Festival".
A winter light festival is one of several annual events organized in different part of the world and among different cultures, to celebrate the end of the winter and the beginning of the light seasons with art workshops, light designs, live music and street food. Originally, this kind of celebration had a religious and spiritual meaning, to ...
Newfields is hanging almost 2 million lights for Winterlights as it mixes in new twists with tradition for the Indianapolis light show. Newfields Winterlights will return Nov. 19 with a record ...
Naumkeag is the former country estate of noted New York City lawyer Joseph Hodges Choate and Caroline Dutcher Sterling Choate, located at 5 Prospect Hill Road, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The estate's centerpiece is a 44-room, Shingle Style country house designed principally by Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White , and constructed in 1885 and ...
Native Americans lived in northeastern Massachusetts for thousands of years prior to European colonization of the Americas.The peninsula that would become Salem was known as Naumkeag (alternate spellings Naemkeck, [9] Nahumkek, [10] Neumkeage [11]) by the native people who lived there at the time of contact in the early 1600s.
The Winter Festival of Lights was founded in 1982 with the mandate of developing tourism in Niagara Falls during the winter months. [4] Its creation was inspired by a lights festival that started in Niagara Falls, New York, in 1981, [5] that was also intended attract tourists to Niagara Falls during the off-season.
In the early 1600s, the Pawtucket sachem held authority over the Pennacook (present-day Concord, New Hampshire), Agawam (present-day Cape Ann, Massachusetts), Naumkeag (present-day Salem, Massachusetts), Pascataway, and Accomintas peoples according to late contemporary source Daniel Gookin, but this authority waned after an epidemic in 1612-1613.
Although the term Naumkeag refers to the pre-colonial settlement at present day Salem, the territory this polity controlled was much larger, as attested by the number of towns in Massachusetts that received deeds from Naumkeag sachems and their descendants, stretching from the northern border of the Charles River through the Mystic River watershed, up the coast as far as present day Peabody ...