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Article: Dyngus Day Parade makes a dry splash: Polonia does itself up proud with inaugural event here.
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- The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)
- Article date:
- April 10, 2007
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Byline: Harold McNeil
Apr. 10--It was far too cold Monday to be throwing actual water at women, so the colorfully costumed participants in Buffalo's first Dyngus Day Parade came up with a drier alternative: buckets of shiny blue and silver streamers. That kind of improvisation lent an air of the eclectic to the affair. Sure, pussy willows abounded, along with other water images associated with the Monday after Easter celebration. But the parade -- which snaked from the Broadway Market over to Fillmore Avenue and up Paderewski Drive to the old Central Terminal -- also took a few left turns toward the untraditional. Parade entries included a miniantique ...
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Article: POLITICS HOLDS SWAY ON HOOSIER DYNGUS DAY
Post-Tribune (IN);
April 5, 1988 ;
700+ words
... ... flew in from Florida Monday for South Bend's Dyngus Day festivities. (AP photo) THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION ... community turned out by the thousands to celebrate Dyngus Day. Unofficially, Dyngus Day opened the heavy politicking that will occur ...
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