In 1929, a group of Italian-Catholic Immigrants formed the Saint Rocco Fraternal Society in the Edgeworth section of Malden, Massachusetts, to help locals afflicted with flu. They named it for…Continue Reading →
More than a decade ago, Stelvyn Mirabal, the founder of the Lawrence group Asociacion Carnavalesca de Massachusetts, told me some of the anti-colonial symbolism of the ruffled suits and monstrous,…Continue Reading →
The annual Topsfield Fair in Topsfield, Massachusetts, from Sept. 30 to Oct. 10, 2022, offers giant pumpkins, racing pigs, an oxen pulling contest, a 6-horse hitch wagon, livestock, sand-sculpting, poultry,…Continue Reading →
The Exeter UFO Festival’s Alien Parade traveled from Town House Common Park to the Bandstand outside Town Hall today. The small southern New Hampshire festival is inspired by the famous…Continue Reading →
Photos of the Wake Up the Earth Festival at South-West Corridor Park at Stony Brook in Jamaica Plain, Boston, today. The festival was founded in 1979 to celebrate a grassroots…Continue Reading →
Lions from Wah Lum Kung Fu & Tai Chi Academy in Malden and Quincy danced in Malden Center today, blessing restaurants and businesses, as part of the celebration the Lunar…Continue Reading →
Honk, the annual festival of activist street bands, returns Saturday, Oct. 9, after taking a year off from live performances to help stem the spread of covid. This weekend, “bands,…Continue Reading →
Cambridge Carnival, the annual celebration of Caribbean culture, returned with a smaller, in-person version of the festival after live events were cancelled the previous two years. They paraded from Cambridgeport…Continue Reading →
“Holiday Magic at the Disney Parks: Celebrations Around the World from Fall to Winter” by Graham Allan, Rebecca Cline and Charlie Prince (Disney Editions) is a big, lavishly illustrated, 384-page photo…Continue Reading →
In advance of this year’s virtual Honk festival from Oct. 5 to 11, I’ve put together the video below for my friends at the festival featuring my photos of the…Continue Reading →