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Parading Across the Commons!
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I love a parade,the tramping of feet,
I love every beat I hear of a drum.
I love a parade, when I hear a band
I just want to stand and cheer as they come.
- Arden Ohman Orchestra
There's something about parades. We parade to celebrate and to mourn, to protest and to congratulate. We flock to the streets to publicly express some communal emotion: joy or sorrow or gratitude or anger.
- Library of Congress (view large!)
We take to the streets to say to farewell to our soldiers....
.. or to welcome them home...
- National Library New Zealand
... or to mourn them.
- State Library of New South Wales
We celebrate sports victories in large cities, with a ticker tape... (Go, Mets!)
- George Eastman House
... or in small towns with local festivals... (get your tobacco on!)
- Library of Virginia
We celebrate the exotic... (sacred car? That's a research assignment for you...)
- New York Public Library
.. the sacred...
- Library of Congress
... or our vices (still the largest casino in Portugal)!
- Biblioteca de Arte-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
And we do it just for the fun of it, too
- Brooklyn Museum
What's your parade about?
Posted at 5:59AM, 5 January 2009 PDT
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Parading or Marching for Rights
For women
For workers
(@zyrcster, click through to the Sacred Car photo, I added some info)
Posted 41 months ago.
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Does a demonstration count as a parade?
The LOC upped some great women's suffrage march photos today:
Posted 41 months ago.
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Wow, that's some great stuff you found out about the sacred car. Thanks for digging it up!
Parading or marching for rights and demonstrations are very much important parades, and there's a lot of great images in the LoC's collection. I think parades fascinate me since they seem fairly unique to us humans. Animals will parade out to migrate, find food, or mate, but we seem to take to the streets for a variety of occasions. :)
Posted 41 months ago.
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@zyrcster: That was a rare case of me going on knowledge, actually! I've had the good fortune to help carry a "sacred car" around a neighborhood.
Someone's gotta have a Disneyland parade, right?!? Maybe once we get some more institutions in The Commons. Recently I've been amazed to find how many archives, museums, libraries etc are posting to regular accounts.
Originally posted 41 months ago.
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Rob Ketcherside edited this topic 41 months ago.
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Wow, that's some great stuff you found out about the sacred car. Thanks for digging it up!
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