“As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled has shown unto many.”
Plymouth, MA (PRWEB) November 18, 2014
The event will feature a candle-lighting ceremony inspired by a journal entry of Plimoth Colony's Governor William Bradford, who wrote about the first decades of the settlement: “As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled has shown unto many.”
PartyLite, the world's number one candle party company -- headquartered in Plymouth for the last 41 years -- is very proud to join its hometown as a sponsor of Illuminate 2014 and subsequent annual events leading up to the historic 400th anniversary.
PartyLite, whose candles, home décor and home fragrance products are available in 23 countries around the world, will provide much of the actual illumination, including donated candles for luminaria and candle-lighting ceremonies.
PartyLite is also sponsoring the Plymouth 400 Illuminate mobile app, which will allow people in Plymouth, Massachusetts, to engage with participants in sister city, Plymouth, England, and connect through the app's social media photo-sharing feature. The app also gives users the ability to light a virtual candle to illuminate in their own communities.
As most schoolchildren can tell you, the first major event in American history happened in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The year was 1620. The moment was the landing of a three-masted merchant ship called The Mayflower and the arrival of the brave Pilgrims on these shores.
Thus came the founding of Plymouth Colony and, after surviving the first bone-chilling winter, the very first Thanksgiving celebration. It was a time of enormous significance in the history of what was to become the United States of America.
“That said, it's also really fun in today's world to be sponsoring a mobile app that will help connect people everywhere with the global tradition of lighting candles to celebrate special occasions and commemorate important events. Candles are part of nearly every culture, and people everywhere always respond in heartfelt ways to candlelight.”
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