St. Louis’ Pagan Community Welcomes Everyone to Join the Party
Maryland Heights residents perform and vend at the nation’s largest free pagan festival.
Somewhere in Maryland Heights, a beautiful blonde’s admiring husband watches her rehearse for her first daytime public belly dance performance. Elsewhere, a graduate of Parkway North finishes sewing one last Hawaiian shirt emblazoned with dancing robots. They’re getting ready for the 19th Annual St. Louis Pagan Picnic, the largest free Pagan festival in the nation. “It’s the world’s best place to people watch,” said Karen Levine DeGuire, one of the festival’s 80 vendors. When growing up in the unincorporated territories between Maryland Heights and Creve Coeur, she never imagined St. Louis had such a thriving, friendly alternative culture scene. “When people outside Missouri try to picture St. Louis in their minds, this isn’t what they see…
Myrddin
4:15 pm on Sunday, June 12, 2011
If "Y Ynys Afallanau" is supposed to mean "The Isle of Apple Trees", that would be "Ynys yr Afallennau". If it's supposed to be "The Apple-Tree Island", that would be "Yr Ynys Afallen", though it would be an unusual construct. "Ynys yr Afallennau" would be the more usual form. more ›