Tarrytown, New York - Residents Honor Gods, Ancestors During Solstice

"Most people think of Christmas, Hannukah or Kwanzaa when discussing the holiday season, but a growing population in the Tarrytown area celebrates something different: the solstice.
Chuck Hognell is a member of the Asatru community, a religion that has roots in Northern Europe for several thousand years." Read the full article by Meredith Shamburger at the Daily Eastchester.

Mother's Night 2011

The Winter Solstice for the Northern Hemisphere (Summer below the equator), occurs this year on Thursday, 22 December,  at 05:30 U.T.C., or 5:30 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time. As this blog involves pulling threads from the web and weaving them into posts for this blog, there will be no entries made here from Mother Night until the end of the "Twelfths," which will be 2 January of 2012. Hail and Glad Jule blessings to all who have been frequenting this site. See you next year.