It was drizzling lightly on Thursday afternoon, a few days before Easter, when we drove up to Holy Land USA in Waterbury, Connecticut. The dilapidated Roman Catholic shrine and tourist…Continue Reading →
Roman Catholics in Boston marked Good Friday today, the prelude to Easter, with a live Stations of the Cross, or passion play, performed in the city’s South End. It was…Continue Reading →
Is it a roller coaster? “No,” replies the patient ride attendant at the free, 30-minute “Hershey’s Chocolate Tour” at Hershey’s Chocolate World in the company town of Hershey, Pennsylvania. Is…Continue Reading →
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Holi is “the Hindu Festival of Colors which celebrates the arrival of Spring,” the Boston University Hindu Student Council writes. This afternoon they invited hundreds of their fellow students to…Continue Reading →
As is traditional, the families gathered at Gloucester’s Temple Ahavat Achim for their annual celebration of the Jewish holiday of Purim on Wednesday evening were costumed as superheroes and princesses,…Continue Reading →
“That could have been me. That could have been my brother. That could have been my own family,” Farida Moustafa told the hundreds of people gathered outside Cambridge City Hall…Continue Reading →
Gragger—Boston Workmen’s Circle’s annual, grown-up “evening of gender-bending, ancestral-healing, world-transforming Purim festivities”—is named for the clacker or rattle traditionally used to blot out the villain’s name in the ancient Jewish…Continue Reading →
“Hey, hey, ho, ho! Climate change has got to go,” chanted hundreds of people at the Youth Climate Strike at the Massachusetts State House in Boston at midday today. Predicted…Continue Reading →
Chinese Culture Connection hosted its annual Chinese Lunar New Year Celebration at Malden High School on Jan. 26, 2019. All photos copyright 2019 Greg Cook. If this is the kind…Continue Reading →