Pageant of the Masters, at Laguna Beach, Calif

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Christina Binkley, California Pageant’s Not-So-Still Lifes. Wall Street Journal, July 24, 2015.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/at-c ... s-of-art-1437579089

Note:
(a) "Every night through July and August, human volunteers enact famous paintings and sculptures in an annual performance in Laguna Beach, Calif, known as the Pageant of the Masters [1933- ]. * * * freeze for 90 seconds"
(i) Laguna Beach, California
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna_Beach,_California
(a city in Orange County; The area of Laguna Canyon was named on an 1841 Mexican land grant map as, Cañada de las Lagunas (English: Glen of the Lagoons))

The place has beaches, hence Laguna Beach.
(ii) Laguna Canyon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna_Canyon
(is deeper and more rugged on the southwestern end near Laguna Beach)

No creek runs through it; instead it is California State Route 133. Click the first photo to see the highway at the bottom of the valley "connecting Laguna Beach and Irvine" (as this Wiki page says).

(b) "Winslow Homer’s 'The Country School' "
(i) Winslow Homer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow_Homer
(1836 – 1910; born in Boston and died in Maine)
(ii) Perry T Rathbone, The Country School by Winslow Homer. St. Louis Art Museum: Bulletin of the City Art Museum of St Louis, 32: 95-99
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40715163?seq=4#page_scan_tab_contents
(painted in 1871)

page 98: "Here before us are bare plank floor and plaster walls, the hard wooden benches and desks -- well seasoned with jackknife blade -- the lunch pails in the [far] corner [atop a table], the bell, the Bible, and the sprig of apple blossoms on the teacher's desk [‘and wilted ones on the floorboards,’ as another observed], and her straw bonnet hung up on the wall [‘from a nail above the chalkboard’]. Here are the scholars, the barefoot boys on one side, the girls in pinafores and high topped shoes on the other [‘except for the crying boy sitting alongside the girls']; and, dominating the room with her unwitting charm, the fresh young schoolmistress in front of the blackboard, book in hand. * * * The room is warm with the bright sunlight of a late spring day.

(A) jackknife
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackknife
(or pocket knife, is a compact, foldable knife)
(B) The painting is a collection of Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts--depicting a one-room schoolhouse in New England
(C) pinafore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinafore
(“A pinafore is a full apron with two holes for the arms that is tied or buttoned in the back, usually just below the neck. Pinafores have complete front shaped over shoulder while aprons usually have no bib, or only a smaller one”)

* Girl Pinnacle Pattern
lasensd.com/girl-pinafore-pattern/
("Girls Pinafore – Free Knitting Pattern: – Suzies Stuff")

You do not want to look at “pinafore dress” (British English; in US: jumper (dress)),  which is not the same as a pinafore (as explained in the Wiki page).

(c) Durga Puja
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durga_Puja
("Worship of Durga"/ an annual Hindu festival; Durga Puja festival marks the victory of Goddess Durga over the evil buffalo demon Mahishasura [qv])

So the (only) man at the foot of the goddess Durga is Mahishasura.
(d) “During a rehearsal, volunteer Alan Holtschneider, a 48-year-old marketing director, was dressed as an elder revolutionary war officer in Edward Percy Moran’s ‘The Birth of Old Glory,’ which experts say depicts Betsy Ross presenting the flag to George Washington.”

Betsy Ross
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_Ross
(1752 – 1836; born Elizabeth Phoebe Griscom; eloped and married John Ross in 1773; married two more times as her first two husbands died in war against UK)