Another year, another great day at The Gathering! I wasn't feeling my best, but there was no way I was going to miss out on this event.
As before, I'm posting photos of the parade first, then I'll do a second post of the events in the park.
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Police Pipes & Drums
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| Elected Officials |
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| Elected Officials |
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| Lebanon |
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| Waterbury Career Academy Band |
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| A couple of t-shirts with the flag of Turkey |
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| Peru |
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| Peru |
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| Hopeville Elementary School |
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| Peru and Puerto Rico |
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| Literacy Volunteers helps people learn to read English and become U.S. citizens |
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| Waldo marched with Literacy Volunteers |
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| Literacy Volunteers |
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| Maloney Interdistrict Magnet School |
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| An Albanian t-shirt on the right, one of the few I saw this year |
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Japan marching with Maloney Magnet School,
which offers a Japanese Language and Culture program for its students |
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| Guyana and Puerto Rico marching with Duggan Elementary School |
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| Puerto Rico and Jamaica marching with Bunker Hill Elementary School |
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| Guyana and Kingsbury School |
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| A homemade Proud to Be Polish shirt on the left |
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| Regan Elementary School |
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| Regan Elementary School, Guyana, and Ecuador |
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| The Nuts and Bolts of Fury -- Kennedy High School's Robotics Team |
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| Generali Elementary School |
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| Reed Elementary School |
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The guy in the middle brought his own music, which was good
since so many of the groups were marching without any music |
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| A large group marched in honor and in memory of Alderman Gregory Hadley |
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| Rivera & Hughes South End Cheerleaders |
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| Puerto Rico! |
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| Crosby High School football players |
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| Berkeley Knights Drill Team and Drum Corps |
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| Jahana Hayes marched with Kennedy High School, keeping step with the Berkeley Knights |
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| Watching from a window on Grand Street |
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| Lithuanians were watching the parade this year instead of marching in it |
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| Waterbury Arts Magnet School Band |
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| Wilby High School |
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| Waterbury Patriots Youth Football |
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| Cape Verdean Social Club |
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| Cape Verdean drummers |
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| Paraguay |
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| Watching the parade on Grand Street |
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| Dominican Club of Connecticut |
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| Dominicanos USA |
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| Brazil |
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| Portugal |
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| My Reflection Matters |
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| Parade participants stopped to take photos of Waterbury's police horses |
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| Colombia |
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| The flower-festooned bicycle won the parade (okay, no, but it was my favorite) |
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| Colombian dancers |
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| The Mayor and other dignitaries watched the parade in front of City Hall |
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| Guyana |
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| Everyone loved the Paso Fino caballero and his dancing horse | |
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| Ecuador |
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| Mexico |
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| Mexico |
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| Mexico |
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| The Mexican dance troupe always wows the audience |
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| Ben Franklin had one of the best seats for viewing the parade |
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