Dear Constant Reader,
I have a great fondness for horror movies of a certain type and I was beyond excited to learn that The Coolidge Corner Theatre was showing a double feature which included one of my favorites. And it was going to be in the woods. I immediately invited Devastasia.
Saturday evening we packed up chairs, pillows, and blankets, bug spray and folding fans, and of course, snacks, and set off for Rocky Woods, a property of the mysterious and ominously-named Trustees. In a clearing surrounded by trees with discrete up-lights we set up our modest encampment. Some people were actually camping and there were a couple of folks who had brought a futon couch.
The event was “Summer Sacrifice” and the movies on the bill were The Wicker Man and Midsommar. I’ve loved The Wicker Man since my high school physics teacher recommended it to me (along with several volumes of Arthurian literature — he could tell I was never going to be a scientist) and I had never seen Midsommar.
Because of who we are, we brought thematic snacks. Devastasia brought Scottish shortbread for The Wicker Man and goat cheese on rye crisps and Swedish Swimmers candy for Midsommar. I made The Devil’s Berries (strawberries with chocolate-horseradish cream), just because and Wicker Man-shaped peach hand pies (they should have been apple-filled to be really on point, but the apple crop failed… ;-).
As the sun went down the first movie started. There were bats flying overhead in the darkening sky and we were hardly bothered by mosquitos. The threatened rain held off and the heat diminished.
It was a lovely evening of ritual human sacrifice and I can’t think of a better person to have shared it with!
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Oh, The Glamourous Life! 
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