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Posts tagged as “Memorial Day”

Haitian Independence Celebrated at Tchaka Fest in Woodbourne

By Richard Heath on May 26, 2015

Sendie Dorcelly of Mattapan. Whitney Brice of Mattapn and Rachel St Fleurose of Roslindale

Sendie Dorcelly and Whitney Brice of Mattapan and Rachel St. Fleurose of Roslindale enjoy the Tchaka Festival on Memorial Day 2015. Credit: Richard Heath.

A week after their grand Independence Day parade down Blue Hill Avenue, the Haitian community  gathered in the hundreds at Jamaica Plain’s Pagel Playground in the Woodbourne neighborhood for the third annual Tchaka Fest on Memorial Day.

Slainte Fellow Gaels We’ll Forget Thee Not

By Chris Helms on May 23, 2014

In honor of Memorial Day, our Photo of the Day comes from Tollgate Cemetery in Forest Hills. This little-known cemetery is the resting place primarily of Irish soldiers who fought in the Civil War.