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Dancing Wheels
SATURDAY, NOV. 9 2013| 4:30pm Lake Park Pavilion, 23253 State Route 83 North Coshocton, Ohio Coshocton is home to a winter roost of crows, meaning annually, upwards to 10,000 crows gather nightly from early November to early March in a line of trees along the river. It is hard to watch the crows flying in to roost without thinking somehow it’s a dance–so many bodies moving together through space–in time with each other…So dance the crows in we will!As part of the 2nd Annual Crow Homecoming, the Pomerene Center for the Arts presents Dancing Wheels, one of the premier arts and disabilities organizations in the U.S. “Dancing Wheels is proof that the possibilities are…
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Rainbow Crow
September 2013–In researching all things crow for the 2nd ANNUAL COSHOCTON CROW HOMECOMING we came across a beautiful Lenape/Delaware  Indian myth about the world when it was never cold and Crow was a rainbow colored bird with a beautiful singing voice. When snow & ice appear Crow agrees to make a journey to ask The Creator Who Creates By Thinking What Will Be to think the world warm again. The Creator Who Creates By Thinking What Will Be could not un-think snow & ice so he thinks fire, lights a torch off the sun and gives it to Rainbow Crow. Over the long flight back to earth Rainbow Crow is charred and turned forever…
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2nd annual crow homecoming
The 2nd ANNUAL CROW HOMECOMING and final hurrah for the world’s 1st ROOT BALL PARK One of the great animal phenomena of the world is the congregation of large numbers of birds into a single communal sleeping group known as a “roost.” Annually, late October/early November, upwards to 10,000 crows come from as far away as Canada to roost in Coshocton, crow resort town, Crowtown. Coshocton has carried the nickname Crowtown for some time. No one seems to know exactly where the nickname came from but it is somehow linked to motorcycles. In 2008, when crows began to congregate in town in significant enough numbers to warrant propane cannons and pyrotechnics,…
