In 1977 my intention was to establish the Commonwealth of Lanternshire, an intentional community on property located in the Town of Stetson, Maine with a collective "barn-raising" style erection of a post-and-beam community house to be named Rosebriar Hall at the high point of a seven-day summer Festival of Lanterns July 1st through 7th of that year...
"A Lanternshire Christmas" was to be initiated at the start of Advent in 1977 with lighting of the trees and dwellings on Burleigh Road in Stetson and continue through New Year's Day in 1978. Part of this intended annual event was to walk along this road singing Christmas carols as "The Lanternlight Minstrels" with the carrying of a lighted lantern among us as we walked from Rosebriar Hall to the House at Pinewoods Hollow...
This never manifested into reality... as an 8' x 10' shed, built in the fall of 1976, was not expanded into the 18' x 24' camp that was to be the House at Pinewoods Hollow on my original 14-acre parcel of land until the Fall of 1978. This structure was never finished, as funds dried up and my dream of building an intentional community put on hold...
Now, as I explore membership at Sirius Community in Shutesbury, I have an opportunity to shine the Threshold Lantern as a bringer of Yuletide cheer singing carols with members and guests as we stroll through the Hearthstone Village along Baker Road on Sunday evening, December 13th, starting at 7:00 pm from the Community Center... ~ JDHWB-R
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