1968 and 2008: Obama, Kennedy, and the history of Dyngus Day
This morning's South Bend Tribune features a rather lengthy look back at one of the last times that the region's Dyngus Day celebrations were the focal point of a contentious presidential primary battle. With Bill Clinton and company in town today, and Barack Obama's surrogates bouncing around as well, many are turning an eye toward the past, drawing parallels between this year's race and the 1968 battle which brought Bobby Kennedy rolling through the state.David Parker, an assistant professor o read
TDW will be at Dyngus Day in South Bend today, so you'll have to play with the weekend threads or make your own conversation here. The blogmistress will bring you coverage tonight from the events -- including appearances by Bill and Chelsea Clinton and other assorted politicking -- in Northern Indiana. Until then, please behave. read
TDW will be at Dyngus Day in South Bend today, so you'll have to play with the weekend threads or make your own conversation here. The blogmistress will bring you coverage tonight from the events -- including appearances by Bill and Chelsea Clinton and other assorted politicking -- in Northern Indiana. Until then, please behave. read
Annual ethnic celebrations is one reason to love this world. Today happens to be the date of one of those - Dyngus Day - first posted on here last year on the day after Easter - the traditional Dyngus Day date. If you don’t care to click back to that post, Dyngus Day is a traditional Polish holiday that celebrates the beginning of spring (an excuse to hold a party) and there is that one odd aspect of it also being a mating ritual in that singles can beat other singles, they are interested i read
(March 24) Today we're celebrating . . . Smigus Dyngus / Dyngus Day / Wet Monday / Easter Monday Smigus Dyngus / Dyngus Day / Wet Monday / Easter Monday After Easter events include egg rolling competitions (ex. White House Easter Egg Roll) and, in many Catholic countries, dousing other people with holy water blessed the day before at Easter Sunday Mass. In the United States, Dyngus Day celebrations are widespread and popular in Buffalo, New York and South Bend, Indiana. In Buffalo’s eastern read
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