MANCHESTER, NH – Meet Karen Rosenberg and Tara McGee – hard to miss this dynamic duo if you attended Sunday’s Merrymaking on the Merrimack. Their distinctive headgear was second to their sweater for two, which was rivaled only by their intermittent but quite intentional baton twirling.
So I had to ask them what was going on with the outfit, and the batons. I was not disappointed (see the video above).
As Rosenberg explained – although hard to hear above the din of the Merrymaking crowd, the two friends attended last year’s Merrymaking event and purchased what they thought was a magnificent sweater for two.
“It had two holes so we thought it was a one big sweater the two of us could wear,” Rosenberg told me. She then admitted that they came to discover what they’d purchased was actually a poncho with complicated arm holes but playing by the rules of fashion – or much of anything – isn’t important to these two, not when you’ve found your bliss.
As for the batons, McGee admitted that she never travels without them, and looks for any opportunity to twirl. Rosenberg confirmed this, and was all in with the twirling – not just because she was conjoined by the sweater, but because twirling begets joy, and joy is the spirit of the season, and for these friends and kindred spirits, nothing could be more joyful than sharing a sweater with a friend.
