Bastille Day | Frenchtown, New Jersey

Some community events feel more like a shared performance than a festival.
Music drifting through the streets.
Artists working in public view.
Kids becoming part of the scene without hesitation.
Neighbors laughing with people they may have just met an hour earlier.
Frenchtown’s Bastille Day celebration always carried that kind of energy, where the line between audience and participant quietly disappeared.
These photographs were made nearly a decade ago, but the feeling still holds up.
Good community events do that.
They stay alive long after the day itself is over.