Needfire.

The needfire is a sacred Celtic even that dates back centuries as a pagan ritual. There are people that still celebrate this event in small communities. On needfire night the households, friends and families put out their fires and met in a home where a single fire burned and around that fire songs, stories and memories both good and bad are shared. By dawn when the night seems to have lasted forever the families return with a candle lit from the one fire, the link to the past, and relight their home fires. The idea was that when the world felt drained a needfire would be used to revitalize both the earth and humans alike. These are the events of the Needfire night for the newsies of New York in 1900