"It is not an accident that the St. Martin’s Lantern walk falls in the time of year that feels darker than any other. If you have experienced this festival, you know that the line of children carrying brightly lit lanterns into the blackness can look like a beacon of joy and hope. In the grade school lantern walk, a St. Martin’s play is included, providing further inspiration through the old story of the bishop who gave half his cloak to a freezing beggar."