State Rep Hosts Event Resulting in Multiple ODs and One Death

A Boston man died of a drug overdose July 7 at a regional version of the Burning Man Festival hosted by a Vermont legislator.

Every year State Representative Kirk White (D/P-Windsor-Addison) hosts the Firefly Arts Collective on his property in Bethel, VT. The festival is described as a New England version of Burning Man. Its website says, “This event operates under the 10 Principles of Burning Man: not to dictate of how people should be and act, but as a reflection of the comm…