Last Saturday, I was honored to celebrate the wedding of April Smith and John Rummel in Detroit. They chose the Swords into Plowshares Gallery and Peace Center (at Central United Methodist Church) on Adams Street, facing Grand Circus Park, as the site of the wedding. It was a simple and beautiful setting, especially given the gorgeous day--sunny, bright, with a gentle breeze.
The Gallery is a smallish room with great high ceilings in the front with am open set of stairs in the back leading to a mezzanine above with a library below, April made her entrance down the flights of stairs to meet John who was standing among a series of statuary stands with bouquets of pink to purple to off-white flowers. Family members played the piano and read poetry, and the morning bore well the personalities and public interests of these two radicals, a morning of class solidarity and desire for individual fulfillment and collective aspirations for peace . . .
Serendipitously, a piece of public art for peace was opening on Grand Circus Park just after the wedding. The Arlington Midwest installation is a series of over four thousand tombstones representing the United States service personnel killed in the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.
(Hmm. Somehow this blog has been corrupted. I'll try to restore the rest of it soon)John and April's wedding, at Swords into Plowshares Gallery.
Arlington Midwest installation.
Michigan Renaissance Festival.
Somehow this post (and others) got corrupted. Hmm. I'll re-load when I'm back in Flint.
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