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Tractor Parade, 2014. Since the 1950s, [5] [6] the Grange Fair has adapted to the changing demographics of northern Westchester.As a "country" fair, the event features traditional agricultural and livestock exhibits and blue ribbon competitions, an antique tractor parade and exhibit, craft and food vendors, and a midway with rides and games. [7]
The lights will commonly be of the same type, so making a candlelight procession, lantern parade or torchlight march. [ 1 ] Examples include the Christmas festival of Ndocciata in Italy; the Chinese Lantern Festival to celebrate the first full moon; and the daily procession of pilgrims to the grotto of Lourdes .
Luminaria in Spanish means "illumination", "festival light", or in ecclesiastical usage, a "lamp kept burning before the sacrament". [11] The Spanish word was derived from Latin luminare meaning a light source generally, or in a religious context, "a light, lamp, burned in the Jewish temple and in Christian churches". [ 12 ]
Sailors man the rails on the flight deck of USS John C. Stennis, San Diego Fleet Week parade. Fleet Week is a United States Navy , United States Marine Corps , and United States Coast Guard tradition in which active military ships recently deployed in overseas operations dock in a variety of major cities for one week.
The Torchlight Parade is the longest of a series of parades around the greater Seattle area in the U.S. state of Washington. It is under the auspices of Seafair , a Seattle summertime celebration. The parade is one of the original Seafair events dating to the 1950 centennial celebration; the first parade was held on August 12, 1950, in the ...
Ticker-tape parades in New York City date back to Oct. 28, 1886, when — in a connection of sorts to this year's parade for the Liberty — a spontaneous celebration took place following the ...
The main parade of the Royal Black Institution is held on the last Saturday of August and is known as Last or Black Saturday. This was originally held on 12 August in commemoration of the end of the siege of Derry, but in the 1950s the date of the event was moved. [3] Local parades are held in Belfast in the two weeks beforehand.
The Pulaski Day Parade is a parade held annually since 1937 on Fifth Avenue in New York City to commemorate Casimir Pulaski, a Polish hero of the American Revolutionary War. The parade runs from 35th to 54th Streets passing by St. Patrick's Cathedral .