1966 The Maharajan in Connecticut

Arab culture has been alive in Connecticut since before the beginning of the 20th Century.  I remember an annual festival every September, called a maharajan, celebrated in a large outdoor open space.  There was always plenty of room to line dance and for children to run around.  The lines of people dancing grew to what my childhood memory tells me was a hundred people.    I had been photographing less than a year when I went to this maharajah.  I was 19.  At that time, it became clear cultural events  would often be the focus of my camera lens.  It's fun to watch the music make people dance.