Today, corsages are most commonly seen at homecomings, proms, and similar formal events. The pavilion has been home to many homecomings and get-togethers at the church. The "Gullah homecomings" also generated extensive publicity in South Carolina and Georgia. Gullah groups made three celebrated "homecomings" to Sierra Leone in 1989, 1997, and 2005. They include Dreaming stories, secret events at sacred sites, homecomings, births and deaths. Daniel and Shay have their homecomings with lots of friends and family there. Themes of the novel include conceptions of home and homecomings. Annual homecomings have been held since 1941 on the first weekend of August each year. Homecomings largely only exist among high schools in eastern Canada, and are uncommon at that. Homecomings is the seventh book in C. P. Snow's "Strangers and Brothers" series.