{"id":428,"date":"2005-05-04T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=428"},"modified":"2005-05-04T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-04T16:44:00","slug":"428","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Maying in Maine<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9 is a Maine photographer whose blog, Another Maine<\/a>, is a non-touristy photo-documentary of Maine life. (Don’t confuse him with academic blogger Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Recently he attended the Popham Beach celebration of Beltaine<\/a>. <\/p>\n

He comments, “As the modern era of NeoPaganism has now been expanding again since the late 1960s, it is interesting to note that such open public celebrations are again as multi-generational an activity today as they were in PaleoPagan days.”<\/p>\n

(Thanks to Marilyn Pukkila<\/a>, who is in a couple of the photos.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maying in Maine Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9 is a Maine photographer whose blog, Another Maine, is a non-touristy photo-documentary of Maine life. (Don’t confuse him with academic blogger Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9.) Recently he attended the Popham Beach celebration of Beltaine. He comments, “As the modern era of NeoPaganism has now been expanding again since the late 1960s, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-428","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8967,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8967","url_meta":{"origin":428,"position":0},"title":"I’m Here to Fill your Krampus-tide Stocking","author":"Chas S. 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