Perchtenlauf, Eugene, Oregon, New Year’s Eve 2020
This year’s lauf, like everything else about this year, was markedly different. … More Perchtenlauf, Eugene, Oregon, New Year’s Eve 2020
This year’s lauf, like everything else about this year, was markedly different. … More Perchtenlauf, Eugene, Oregon, New Year’s Eve 2020
Once more, this past New Year’s Eve, we laufed throughout the city – a group of about nine monsters of various, mostly traditional types (including our very first Schnabelpercht!). … More Perchtenlauf, Eugene, Oregon, New Year’s Eve 2019
This year our Perchtenlauf was revived by one of the original participants from the first one five years ago. We had about a dozen monsters making a ruckus along an expanded route … More Perchtenlauf, Eugene, Oregon, New Year’s Eve 2018
Residents of the small Austrian town were concerned that some of the dozens of refugee families residing there, many from the Muslim countries of Syria or Afghanistan, might be confused or even frightened by the annual Krampus parade… … More Refugees Encounter Perchtenlauf
The second Eugene Perchtenlauf had a few of the same participants, but many new ones as well. … More Perchtenlauf, Eugene Oregon, December 2014
Eventually I decided to organize my own mumming procession, based on the Perchtenlauf … More Perchtenlauf, Eugene Oregon, January 2014