The American Cancer Society - Relay for Life {Event}

The "Relay for Life" is one of the American Cancer Society's local events that focuses of what many of us can do to help in the fight to cure cancer.

Recently we were invited to photograph the event  which was held on the track at Walpole High School in Walpole MA. I was happy to see walkers for not only Walpole but the surrounding towns as well. They had set up a kind of "tent city"  because the event begins at 6:00 PM and doesn't end until the next afternoon.  So for most of the attendees this was going to be a sleepover with lots of walking.

Events like this draw the survivors who wear purple t-shirts and the rest of the people are generally wearing - well, I guess you could say costumes. 

 

I loved the colorful clothes, some of which included bunny slippers, tu-tus and crazy t-shirts.

All of the attendees should be very proud of their participation, I was honored to be there.