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Excerpt from The Vintage Festival: A Play Pageant and Festivities Celebrating the Vine in the Autumn of Each Year at St. Helena in the Napa Valley From some upper porch the notes of a band. They oat out over the laughter, over the shouting, over the confusion of movement. A curious utter among the people. A sud den separation and then a quick co-mingling. A eeting pause in which each soul attunes itself to the harmony, and each foot to the rhythm. Then, like the whirling of leaves at the call of Autumn, the dance is on in the middle of the wide street. It is a loom, human beings the shuttles, weaving broken colors. It is a stream of swift movement, eddies within eddies, yet all owifig with the main current. At the call of trombone and drum these human beings attest their one ness with all that articulates in rhythm stars whirling in majestic choruses; waters rolling their repetitions; winds rising and falling;birds singing in staccato notes or long, liquid trilling; inseéts ashing their fiery grace notes on the open sheet of Night. Part of all these the people have become. The heaviness of esh gone, the lightness of spirit remaining. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.