Why the Great Resignation is the Great Reawakening, by Rip Van Winkle

The Boothbay Winter Fair is timed just right to be the harbinger of a new world order rising from the roots.

A Vintage Baby Gull purchase it online or at the Boothbay Winter Faire Photo by Mackenzie Andersen

This weekend we participated in the first annual Boothbay Winter Faire on the Commons, like pagans and gypsies emerging from the mists of history, taking back the town, giving new life to a long tradition that is the milieu of the designer craftsmen movement going back to Medieval times when the first Town Fairs were filled with makers before the emergence of merchant importers.

Contemporary scholars debate whether traveling craftsmen of the Bronze Age were free men or could only exist under the yoke of powerful financiers of the elite classes, a debate that continues in contemporary times, as makers and creators share common interests in the emergent economic negotiations around the future of work. Coronavirus and climate change unrelentingly pinprick the overblown balloons of global social-political-economic social systems. The winds of change blow in many directions these days and rear…