Repping the Dorchester Food Co-op.
After a two-year absence, the Dorchester Day Parade returned to its eponymous avenue, with hundreds of participants walking, sashaying, marching and dancing their way from Lower Mills to Columbia Road.
The National Lancers were near the front, on horseback: Read more.
The Dorchester Day parade returns Sunday after a couple years off due to the pandemic. Starts at 1 p.m. in Dorchester Lower Mills, then heads north on Dorchester Avenue up to Columbia Road.
Women ride in parade under South Vietnamese and American flags
As Boston's largest and possibly most diverse neighborhood, Dorchester doesn't lack for representation in the annual Dorchester Day parade.
We'll get to more flags, but first, the world's cutest lollipop giver outer, who went from side to side on Dot Ave. making sure no kid went without a lollipop: Read more.
Girl flying a Cape Verdean flag.
As it is every year, the Dorchester Day parade was a microcosm of the cultures and backgrounds that make up the city's largest neighborhood. Read more.
As it does on the first Sunday every June, Dorchester celebrated itself in the Dorchester Day Parade up Dot. Ave.
Overcast skies kept things at just the right temperature for a parade, which featured everything from Vietnamese lion dancers to bagpipers to a Caribbean steel-drum players: Read more.
Did she cast a spell to hold off the rain?
The annual neighborhood celebration wended its way up Dorchester Avenue today.
Some of the musicians prepared for the rain that mostly didn't fall: Read more.
Buried in a Globe story about how the Allied War Veteran's Council is looking to sue the city over the route of the St. Patrick's Day parade in South Boston (something they know quite a bit about) is this statement from the mayor's office:
Boston police are considering changes to the routes for the Dorchester Day Parade and the Bunker Hill Day Parade for public safety reasons as well, the statement said.
Even the Boston Yeti made an appearance - after first shaving some fur for the summertime.
Marchers in the annual parade had bright skies, but not absurdly warm or humid conditions this year. Still, imagine marching 4+ miles dressed like this: Read more.
On the Dot Out float
Dorchester came out to celebrate itself today, with the annual parade from Lower Mills all the way up Dot. Ave. to Savin Hill.
Unlike last year's parade, at which both marchers and viewers wilted on a hot, humid day, today was perfect weather for a parade.
If you're looking for a parade with no controversy and an essay contest on making the neighborhood better.
Dorchester didn't let a little heat and humidity stop its parade. And it was Dorchester's usual grand mixture of cultures and themes - ARVN veterans preceded Revolutionary Minutemen, a Pilgrim marched alongside a space capsule:
The Dorchester Day Parade wended its way up Dot. Ave. today, spanning the globe from Vietnamese dragon dancers to people promoting the local food co-op.
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