Tuesday night, City Manager Susan Stanton announced that she would be playing the part of an angel in the annual Boar's Head Festival to be held today at Bethesda by the Sea. We know that Susan is very spiritual. Angels are represented throughout the Christian Bible as a body of spiritual beings intermediate between God and men. (I told you this was Lynn's Little bit of Trivia)
From Bethesda's web site: The traditional English boar's head dates back to the 1300s in Queen's College, Oxford. Boars menaced villagers in Norman England - the serving of the boar symbolizes the triumph of good over evil.
More than 160 including parishioners, vocalists, the Bethesda Choir, Palm Beach Pipes and Drums, and instrumentalists dress as lords and ladies, sprites, pages, jesters, shepherds, huntsmen, and beefeaters in a mingling of pagan and Christian traditions.
2011 presentation will be held Sunday, January 9, at 2:30 p.m. and then again at 4:30 p.m.
The ceremony is always held on the Sunday closest to The Epiphany, the twelfth day of Christmas, which is the date the Three Kings are said to have arrived in Bethlehem. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
January 3, Boar's Head Recessional at Bethesda
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