A Call for Peace, Now More than Ever

Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Program

4:00 pm Peace Walkers meet at River Valley Coop for Procession to Easthampton Library, collect other Walkers at 5:00 and continue on to Nashawannuck Pond
5:00 Gathering at Nashawannuck Pond for crane folding, ice cream, and more
5:45 Presentation of poem: Original Child Bomb by Thomas Merton
6:30 Poems and excerpt of the Nihon Hidankyo Nobel Peace Prize 2024 acceptance speech
7:00 Flute playing, chanting, prayers, drumming; then a kayak begins to lead the lanterns onto the Nashawannuck Pond
8:00 Lanterns return to the shore

Sponsors

Greater Springfield Campaign Nonviolence, Back from the Brink Western Mass; City of Easthampton; Easthampton Public Library; Mass Peace Action; Traprock Center for Peace and Justice; New England Peace Pagoda; Pax Christi Western Massachusetts; Sisters of St. Joseph of Springfield; Easthampton Solidarity with Palestine; Luthiers; Prosperity Candle; Mt. Tom Ice Cream; PSR/Pioneer Valley