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October 27, 2009

As I said below, we’re still trying to understand what happened Saturday

Bill McKibben

A collage of community celebration photos marking 350 years, featuring groups of people, commemorative displays, anniversary decorations, and various events held both indoors and outdoors to honor this milestone.

Here’s one more attempt to give folks some sense of the scale of the events. These pictures are a small sampling of what went on in the hill towns of western Massachusetts, a sparsely populated rural area of the United States eastern seaboard. In one small place after another around the world, people came together in large numbers–in some of these towns, that’s a large percentage of the total population out there on display. People did remarkable work everywhere!

A collage of community celebration photos marking 350 years, featuring groups of people, commemorative displays, anniversary decorations, and various events held both indoors and outdoors to honor this milestone.