more Bread and Puppet pictures from July 4, 2009

Some in rags, some in jags ...

I love these new puppets with (I think) plastic buckets for mouths. I love their bright colors and how, moving down Glover Road in Barton, Vermont, their ribbons of rags lift in the cool July breeze.

and some in velvet gowns.




And who wouldn`t love Dirt Cheap Money, title and theme of this year's circus?

From the north country

One of the joys of being in northern Vermont -- in the Northeast Kingdom, as it's called -- is the opportunity to see the great Bread and Puppet Circus.The sunshine came out just for them, when the band started playing in the Barton parade, and it stayed all afternoon so that people could enjoy the first circus of the season. (Otherwise, not a lot of sunshine that week in the Kingdom.)