Opening Ceremony - May 30, 1998

photographs courtesy of David Aronow


The New England Peace Pagoda

The Pagoda Spire

walkers at opening ceremony

approaching platform

Kees'aton'amuk opens ceremony with traditional prayer calling in spirits

calling spirits with bone whistle

Nosapocket (Wampanoag tribe) offers smoke of sage to assembly during Kees'aton'amuk's prayer

Buddhist ceremony begins

scattering lotus petals in Buddhist ceremony

assembly offers incense

assembly offers incense

circumnambulating the pagoda

assembly circumnambulating the pagoda

assembly circumnambulating the pagoda

assembly circumnambulating the pagoda

assembly circumnambulating the pagoda

Dr. David DuBois addresses assembly

Ingrid Askew, Sister Clare Carter, Elaine Kenseth

African drumming and dancing Return to Photographs