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So they did it again. The crew of friends blew into Warner Saturday afternoon from the Four Directions, kicked around a few ideas, pulled what they needed for props and material out of the 35-year-old treasure trove malingering in Jesse's mom's barn, and by 1 pm Sunday they were jiving down Main Street, Warner, on their way to another win.

There's a strange diaspora of people with ties to Warner, NH and the Warner Fall Foliage Festival parade and Jesse McNeil and his mother's big farmhouse in lower Warner and the huge attached barn that is crammed with the artifacts and detritus from theatre productions and float-making that have settled into its haylofts and horse stalls since the mid 1970s. The diaspora gathers (as many as are able) once a year on a Saturday in early October to quickly and arfully put together a float for the next day's parade, and to comport themselves with a traditional antic foolishness that, float or not, is its own reward. Jesse himself seems to be making a habit of traveling from where he now lives on Orcas Island in Puget Sound to New Hampshire in a new way every year. Past years have included crossing the country on a moped, a tiny airplane, and this year, on a clunker mountain bike. Not everyone in the diaspora is so dedicated. And speaking of dedicated, this little film is dedicated to those members of the FFF tribe, across the country and the globe, who couldn't make it this year. See you next year? For more curiously local gleanings, why not visit http://curiouslylocal.com