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12th December 2022

Post reblogged from Kontextmaschine with 14 notes

kontextmaschine:

I just realized for the first time that people who didn’t grow up around Philadelphia have no idea of Mummer’s Day

Okay so every New Year’s Day we’d have a parade that was like ¼ New York’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and ¾ New Orleans Mardi Gras, with all these krewe-style groups that had been passed on for decades upon decades fielding sections with drumlines and men in the most extravagant feathered costumes

  1. cyeayt reblogged this from kontextmaschine
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    this was all downstream of a big historic Lord of Misrule costumed marching tradition that all of the 1st through 3rd Ku...
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    So, it’s Christmas In July, but instead it’s Pride Parade in January?