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Celebrations
The United States has phased out May Day in favor of our favorite late-summer three-day weekend holiday.
We estimate that more than 300,000 people came to meet veterans and hear stories, listen to music, learn about the war, and reunite.
As the Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcome their firstborn son, “royally obsessed” super fans in the United States are striving to keep many time-honored royal traditions alive.
The Spanish settlers likely brought the tradition of the cascarones to Nuevo Santander, as this region of Northern Mexico and South Texas was called.
A village festival in the middle of snowy January in an unheated barn? No problem!
For Tibetans, Losar (ལོ་གསར་ or “new year”) is the biggest celebration of the year, with sixteen days of feasting, gift-giving, and traditional song and dance.
Each winter, Catalan towns celebrate Christmas with a production of Els Pastorets, or “The Beloved Shepherds.”
I can’t remember a year in my life where my Grandma Lucille laid out the smörgåsbord and the korv was missing.
For us, the tamalada, a tamale making party, goes back several generations to San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
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