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[bryant]

Holidays, New England style:

• MLK Day -- nothing special
• President's Day -- nothing special
• Patriot's Day -- the Boston Marathon & Red Sox
• Easter -- nothing special
• Memorial Day -- spend five hours driving to the Cape
• July 4th -- Boston Pops on the Esplanade
• Labor Day -- spend five hours driving to the Cape
• Halloween -- Salem
• Thanksgiving -- Plimouth Plantation
• Christmas -- Christmas Revels
• New Year's Eve -- First Night

That's all the cheese I can think of off the top of my head. What's missing?

Comments

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

MLK Day -- nothing special

Arisia?

[(Anonymous)]

"Evacuation Day" a.k.a. St. Patrick's Day -- BEER! Demeaning the Irish! Irish Gays on Parade!

Cinco de Mayo -- TEQUILLA! Demeaning the Mexicans!

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

When's that crazy Catholic fishman effigy parade in the North End?

And Head of the Charles, the Marathon, and Harvard-Yale are secular holidays to some. But you got the Marathon already.

[head58.livejournal.com]

Easter=wait half an hour past your reservation time to get into a hotel brunch that is only fair to middling anyway.

[roniliquidity.livejournal.com]

St. Patrick's Day.

All bars are Irish on St. Patrick's day.
Go to bar, drink. Go to a different bar, drink some more. Go to yet another bar and drink yet more. Repeat as neccessary.

[roniliquidity.livejournal.com]

Whoops, that was meant to be a gerneral comment. I seem to do that all the time in just this journal.

[marphod.livejournal.com]

That's 'Evacuation Day'.

Funny, how there's a holiday that always falls on St. Patrick's.

[peaseblossom.livejournal.com]

Mother's Day = Lilac Sunday at the Arboretum and/or the Duckling Parade in the Gardens.

[bryant]

Is that the Columbus Day parade, or something else?

[totient]

July 4 is also wait 5 hours to take the ferry to the Vineyard.

More local color

[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the Minuteman/Red Coat re-enactments on Patriot's Day. And USS Constitution turn around cruise on July 4th.

USS constitution turn-around cruise

[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

I'm going to squirrel a little cash away so we can do that again this year...

[cityofbeige.livejournal.com]

Cinco de Mayo -- TEQUILLA! Demeaning the Mexicans!

Yes, Cinco de Mayo is basically Demeaning the Mexicans Day. For one thing, Mexican Independence Day is Sept 16th. Another thing, Cinco de Mayo celebrates one battle where they temorarily held off the French from taking over Mexico soon after they gained independence from the Spanish.

My father is a typical stupid Gringo when he goes to other countries. One time when we were in La Paz, Baja, he asked the cabby if it gets really crazy during Cinco de Mayo. The cabby looked at him and basically said, "Cinco de Mayo... what's that?". Yep... it's a total Gringo holiday.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Like i say, only the Mexicans would make a holiday out of beating the French.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

May 1 - Dawn procession with Maypole from the banks of the Charles through Harvard Square.