Fêtes
Fêtes. The term fête pronounced /ˈfeɪt/ FAYT or /ˈfɛt/ FET, is borrowed from the Mediaeval Latin festus via the French fête, meaning "holiday" or "party". The 12th-century Middle English root fest- is shared with feast, festive, festal and festival.
The Fêtes, "In the United Kingdom and some of its former colonies, a fête is a public outdoor festival organised to raise money for a charity."
"Think of Briar Rose and the feast of Twelve Golden Plates which leaves the Thirteenth Wise Woman out of the bonds of community with the King, Queen and Princess. Villages hold fetes or feasts. The wedding feast is intended to bond the new couple to their community. And churches and other organizations like to hold “pot luck” events to strengthen their social bonds." From "The Frog King, or The Frog Prince", on June 5, 2011, Christine Natale. See “[http://thewonderofchildhood.com/2011/02/fairy-tales-with-christine-natale/ The Waldorf Approach to Fairy Tales”
The essential bonds of a free society were quickly learned by the Pilgrims and strangers at Plymouth through what we celebrate as Thanksgiving.[1]
Because of the social bonds established by the custom of sharing and caring through voluntary means and methods the natural formation of defensive mechanisms are established long before they may be needed. The people seeing themselves as the government of the people, by the people and for the people learned to do for themselves. They commonly gathered to built roads and schools, libraries, bridges, and even implemented fire suppression and flood control.
Alexis de Tocqueville speaks of how Americans gathered together in voluntary groups[2] for the purposes of accomplishing or sponsoring projects that would result in the building of public infrastructure such as schools or hospitals, and even prisons without dependence upon government taxation.
People were accustomed to gathering in order to generate funds through a variety voluntary means and methods, including community festivals or Fêtes.[3] through charity that people commonly expect to be funded by government through taxation today. American associations where the people gathered together to accomplish projects of all sorts.[4]
- ↑ In Webster's Revised 1998 Unabridged Dictionary, we see the first definition in a different light: Eucharist... n. [L. eucharistia, Gr. ... lit., a giving of thanks; e'y^ + cha`ris favor, grace, thanks; akin to chai`rein to rejoice, and prob. to yearn: cf. F. eucharistie.] 1. The act of giving thanks; thanksgiving. [Obs.]"
- ↑ "Americans group together to hold fêtes, found seminaries, build inns, construct churches, distribute books, dispatch missionaries to the antipodes. They establish hospitals, prisons, schools by the same method. Finally, if they wish to highlight a truth or develop an opinion by the encouragement of a great example, they form an association." Alexis de Tocqueville 1840, Democracy in America 596.
- ↑ Fêtes. "In the United Kingdom and some of its former colonies, a fête is a public outdoor festival organised to raise money for a charity." The term fête pronounced /ˈfeɪt/ FAYT or /ˈfɛt/ FET, is borrowed from the Mediaeval Latin festus via the French fête, meaning "holiday" or "party". The 12th-century Middle English root fest- is shared with feast, festive, festal and festival.
- ↑ “Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations in which all take part, but other of a thousand different types — religious, moral, serious, futile, very general and very limited, immensely large and very minute. … Finally, if they want to proclaim a truth or propagate some feeling by the encouragement of a great example, they form an association. In every case, as the head of any new undertaking, where in France you would find the government or in England some territorial magnate, in the United States you are sure to find an association.” Alexis de Tocqueville 1840, Democracy in America.