[SEMCO] NEW YEARS DAY CELEBRATION: Walk in Woods Hole on January 1st

[Murphydalzell at aol.com]

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.

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.   

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.
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