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<DIV>The New Years Day walkabout in Woods Hole is becoming a Cape Cod tradition. It's the moment when environmentalists, marine scientists and educators, and others, make their promises to help protect Woods Hole and the oceans of the world during the new year. Prospero, the wizard from Shakespeare's play "The Tempest," leads a holiday parade past many of the laboratories, classrooms, and government offices in the scientific community.</DIV>
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<DIV>The celebration will start at noon, on January 1st, in front of the Woods Hole Community Hall on Water Street. Bring colorful flags, holiday noisemakers, and carnival costumes for a lively parade around Eel Pond. Falmouth's "No Place for Hate" banner is part of the procession, to remind people that Woods Hole is an international community that welcomes people of many races, cultures, religions, and nationalities. At Waterfront Park, the group pauses to "toast the coast" with non-alcoholic beverages. Individuals promise to do their best, in the new year, to help protect the natural world and its inhabitants. In past years, individuals have stepped forward to sing special songs, to offer prayers and poetry, to dance, and to express their best wishes to all. </DIV>
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<DIV>After the Waterfront Park celebration, there's a potluck party at the Woods Hole Community Hall when holiday leftovers are shared. The last of the fruitcakes, rum balls, and Christmas candies will be appreciated.... This will be the fourth year for the Woods Hole celebration of New Years Day... Groups that have helped in past years have included the Sierra Club, the Falmouth League of Women Voters, the World Federalists, and the Woods Hole Community Association. Special thanks, this year, belong to the Episcopal Church of the Messiah and the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Falmouth. For more information, please contact Bob Murphy. Home telephone: (508) 563-5948.</DIV></BODY></HTML>