The Starwood Festival Experience
Jo and I just returned from the Starwood Festival XXIX, which spanned July 21-26, 2009 in Sherman, New York. It was our third Starwood Festival and hopefully not our last!
The event, though thoroughly enjoyable, was somewhat marred by incessant rain. The rain kept quite a few attendees and vendors away. A hail forecast before the final night saw even more people leave. The hail, however, fortunately bypassed the event. Some attendees referred to this Starwood as “Squishwood II” (named in honor of Starwood 2003; which was washed out) or “Wetstock” (in homage to Woodstock).
The Starwood Festival on its website claims to be “the largest Pagan/Magickal/Consciousness gathering in North America (perhaps the world),” although Wikipedia amends this to “the largest annual Neo-pagan gathering and festival on the East Coast of the United States.” (more…)