Sat. Dec 21st, 2024
A group of people in winter clothing participate in a nighttime candlelight vigil in a snowy outdoor setting.

About 50 fifty people braved snow and plunging temperatures to attend the annual Longest Night Vigil in front of the Statehouse on Friday, Dec. 20, to remember people who lost their lives while experiencing  homelessness. People spoke and people sang and people held candles and each other in the darkness and the cold.

A group of people in winter clothing participate in a nighttime candlelight vigil in a snowy outdoor setting.
Sue Minter of Capstone Community Action speaks as people gather in front of the Statehouse in Montpelier on Friday, December 20, 2024, for the Longest Night Vigil organized by the Washington County Housing Coalition to remember the people who lost their lives while experiencing homelessness. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger
People gather outside in the snow, placing lit candles on the ground, with one person kneeling in the foreground.
Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger
A group of people standing in a circle around lit candles on a snowy evening, in front of an illuminated building.
Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger

Read the story on VTDigger here: PHOTOS: At the Longest Night Vigil, Vermonters commemorate their houseless neighbors.

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