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Solstice in Middlebury

Dec 29, 2022 | Photos of the Week

BARBARA PAULSON OF No Strings Marionette Co looks on as her young students lead a procession of lanterns and puppets to the Middlebury Town Green. Independent photo/Steve James
YOUNG ACTORS PERFORM an adaptation of Dylan Thomas’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” on the Middlebury Town Green as part of a Town Hall Theater winter solstice celebration. Independent photo/Steve James
YOUNG ACTORS PERFORM an adaptation of Dylan Thomas’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” on the Middlebury Town Green as part of a Town Hall Theater winter solstice celebration. Independent photo/Steve James

VIVIENNE RAFFERTY AND Kaisa Remsen ham it up with the lantern puppets — or “planterns” — they made for the pageant with the help of puppeteer Barbara Paulson. Independent photo/Steve James
THE YOUNGEST GROUP of puppeteers makes their cat puppets spit and snarl along the wall outside Town Hall Theater. The 5- to 8-year-olds worked with Barbara Paulson of No Strings Marionette Co over the last several weeks to create their own puppets and stage the performance. Independent photo/Steve James
A STUDENT LEADS a procession of lanterns and puppets to the Middlebury Town Green. Independent photo/Steve James

THE YOUNGEST GROUP of puppeteers makes their cat puppets spit and snarl along the wall outside Town Hall Theater. The 5- to 8-year-olds worked with Barbara Paulson of No Strings Marionette Co over the last several weeks to create their own puppets and stage the performance. Independent photo/Steve James
A FAMILY GATHERS in the glow of headlamps to read the words of the song shared on Dec. 21 at the Watershed Center’s Solstice Celebration in Bristol. The center hosts winter revelers every December to send out the shortest day of the year and welcome the return of longer days and more light. Photo by Jonathan Blake
THE MIDDLEBURY TOWN Green gazebo looked especially festive for the occasion. Independent photo/Steve James

CLAIRE TEBBS PROVIDED beautiful lanterns for the winter solstice pageant. Independent photo/Steve James

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