Saturday, November 5, 2022, 12:00 pm until 1:30 pm 399 Main Street, Greenfield, MA - Red Door on Hope Street
" Remember, remember the fifth of November! "
Guy Fawkes Night, held every year on November 5, marks the anniversary of the discovery of a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament and kill King James I in London in 1605. The eponymous Guy Fawkes and his band of catholic conspirators were discovered and eventually executed and tried for treason. After the plot was revealed, Londoners began lighting celebratory bonfires, and in 1606 an act of Parliament designated November 5 as a day of thanksgiving. Guy Fawkes Day festivities soon spread as far as the American colonies, where they became known as Pope Day. In keeping with the anti-Catholic sentiment of the time, British subjects on both sides of the Atlantic would burn an effigy of the pope. Celebrations of Guy Fawkes today are much less violent and anti-Catholic today. People across Britain light bonfires and set off fireworks.
Guy Fawkes Day is a relic of Britain’s fractious religious history and an ongoing reminder of the influence of the British monarchy in defining Britain's history. Guy Fawkes himself has undergone something of a makeover. Once known as a notorious traitor, he is now portrayed in some circles as a revolutionary hero, largely due to the influence of the 1980s graphic novel “V for Vendetta” and the 2005 movie of the same name, which depicted a protagonist who wore a Guy Fawkes mask while battling a future fascist government in Britain.
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