I enjoyed a full weekend of marching brass bands this past weekend-visiting friends in Boston (Somerville really) for HONK, and then taking LB to PRONK in Providence on Monday. Both HONK and PRONK are alternatives to Columbus Day-without the denial of Columbus's legacy of mass death. Both are joyous. HONK is bigger and great, but I do love our little PRONK. This year it started in Burnside Park with performances, and then the parade marched across the river and down South Water to the hurricane barrier. It was lovely, marching with the sun setting over the power plant-which doesn't sound lovely but it was.
LB had a great time dancing, and then cried because her friends didn't want to dance, and then rallied, and then face planted. But all in all it was a great time.