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Article: Annual Halloween parade in New York features New Orleans feel
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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Annual Halloween parade in New York features New Orleans feel
NEW YORK, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- New Yorkers started their 32nd
annual Village Halloween parade Monday evening on a solemn note and
styled the parade on hurricane-battered New Orleans' traditional jazz
funerals.
Glen Hall, a 10-year-old trumpet player who lost his home in
Hurricane Katrina, served as grand marshal, with Katrina victims
dancing around a coffin that symbolizes their city, and the loved
ones they lost.
There was also a phoenix rising from the ashes, the same symbol
used in the parade after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"I'm planning to see millions of people and costumes, crazy
people," said the young trumpeter ...