The Carving
Carvers arrive before sunrise with their own knives and strong opinions. By evening the square holds three hundred beet lanterns and at least one scandal about a disqualified entry.
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Three Autumn Days
Of Music, Carving
And Endless Borscht
Beets ahead
Three Days That Feed
The Whole Of Slobovnia
Every autumn the square fills before dawn and empties long after midnight. These are the numbers the Village Council keeps, chalked on the tavern wall.
0+Bowls Of Borscht Served
0tTonnes Of Beets Harvested
0+Registered Beet Carvers
0Fiddle Bands In The Square
0Consecutive Festival Years
Three days of the Great Beet Festival
The Long Table
A single table runs the length of the village, laid with borscht, black bread and pickled everything. Visitors are seated between families deliberately, so nobody eats among only their own.
The Lantern Walk
Fiddlers lead the whole village from the square to the beet fields and back, lanterns swinging, until the last song is played outside the synagogue doors at midnight.
The festival falls on the first full moon after the harvest, which the Village Council announces roughly six weeks in advance and occasionally revises.
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