When is dyngus day 2011

A special celebration held the Monday after Easter, a day of feasting, drinking, playing pranks and merrymaking. The traditions of Dyngus Day predate Christianity, in Poland, by hundreds of years and are derived from pagan celebrations welcoming the spring. Young men would signal their amorous intentions to young women by dousing them with water.

Women would respond by beating young men with pussy willows. Smigus means to strike, more or less, evoking the pussy willows, while dyngus means a worthy gift or ransom, referring to the small gifts, often decorated eggs that were exchanged as part of the holiday.

People have a parade. They party and polka-dance all day. It was a lot of fun. He'd been hired to play up there. So we started talking about having Dyngus Day in Cleveland. There also will be a trolley traveling among the three bars. Plonski is recruiting as many accordion players as he can find for the parade. DJ Kishka and the Chardon Polka Band are among the performers who will be rotating around the Polish Triangle, performing at all three bars throughout the evening.

Revelers can follow their favorite or just sit back and listen to them all. Polish food will be served at all three places -- things such as stuffed cabbage, Polish sausage, kolache, kielbasa, sauerkraut, cabbage and noodles, and pierogi. But I could see this one day, maybe even next year, just exploding across the city. To email, send to BernadettePawlak gmail. I moved to Buffalo to attend Canisius College in and began writing for Buffalo Rising as a journalism intern in Working with Newell and meeting numerous entrepreneurs, activists and everyday folks who were working to make their city better made a huge impact on my decision to stay here.

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