05-21-2012, 10:36 AM
St Edacious
The Council of Edacious Souls was formed in late 1969, in response to the current events of the time by a group of high school students scattered among the area of Bennington, the surrounding Benningtons, Shaftsbury, Pownal, and Woodford Vermont. It was an "activist" organization, in the sense that it met when crisis events in the community or the world took place, to pay homage to the great Saint Edacious...the patron Saint of Gluttony. This feast usually consisted of a pig roast with "pot luck" trimmings that everyone who came would prepare and bring, and an elderberry locally distilled wine flavored with a few thousand micrograms of lysergic acid bitartrate.
They lasted for usually two overnights, and began in that first late summer in 1970 to celebrate it's very own creation and anniversary.
The council meets every year to this day still, just had it's 43rd annual council meeting, and was quite a success. Everyone brings their music if they play, or their voice if they don't and the Council Meets.
There are many storied events that have occurred at these feasts themselves, as often during the first evening, most of the pent up debauchery takes place. Then the Discussion occurs, which is always interesting. Everyone has literally shared their life story year by year at this meeting, and it's a well known fable each Soul gets to tell.
The Council of Edacious Souls was formed in late 1969, in response to the current events of the time by a group of high school students scattered among the area of Bennington, the surrounding Benningtons, Shaftsbury, Pownal, and Woodford Vermont. It was an "activist" organization, in the sense that it met when crisis events in the community or the world took place, to pay homage to the great Saint Edacious...the patron Saint of Gluttony. This feast usually consisted of a pig roast with "pot luck" trimmings that everyone who came would prepare and bring, and an elderberry locally distilled wine flavored with a few thousand micrograms of lysergic acid bitartrate.
They lasted for usually two overnights, and began in that first late summer in 1970 to celebrate it's very own creation and anniversary.
The council meets every year to this day still, just had it's 43rd annual council meeting, and was quite a success. Everyone brings their music if they play, or their voice if they don't and the Council Meets.
There are many storied events that have occurred at these feasts themselves, as often during the first evening, most of the pent up debauchery takes place. Then the Discussion occurs, which is always interesting. Everyone has literally shared their life story year by year at this meeting, and it's a well known fable each Soul gets to tell.