Following the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, the world saw social dancing take off as people Charleston-ed, Shimmied, and Fox Trotted their way back into each other’s lives.

Though it was canceled in 2020 due to COVID and featured just two rafts in last year’s edition, there is still a strong contingent that would like to see the race return to its former glory.

Korda was recognized for his commitment and excellence during the annual Vermont Emergency Preparedness Conference on September 20.

It has come as a shock to many of us that their numbers have dwindled so drastically that the Monarch—the State Butterfly of Vermont—has just been listed as an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. 

In the 37th law of Robert Greene’s book The 48 laws of Power, under the heading “Create Compelling Spectacles,” Green wrote that “Striking imagery and grand symbolic gestures create the aura of power—everyone responds to them.”