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This article originally appeared in the Reporter in 2015. This year's parade is Sunday, June 5- starting at 1 p.m. in Lower Mills.- Editors Can you feel it? The sense of anticipation, joy, and wonder, reverberating up and down Dot Ave? It’s not Christmas, folks. It’s Dorchester Day. Never been to Dot Day? Kid, you’re in for a treat. Here’s what you need to know about the ....
Donned in their South Vietnamese military or police uniforms, Nguyen Ngon, Tran Thin, Kim Dang, and about two dozen other Vietnamese American residents annually march along Dorchester Avenue in the Dorchester Day Parade and enter Fields Corner, home to the neighborhood’s Vietnamese American community, to a standing ovation. Along the rest of the parade route, applause is also ....
It’s finally back: The Dot Day Parade. The forecast for Sunday calls for sunshine in the 70s, a picture-perfect day for the return of what has long been considered the unofficial start of summer in these parts. Dorchester deserves a sun-splashed parade day in ’22 after going O-for-the pandemic the last two years. Here are some Dot Day-related musings while we wait impatiently ....
Jha’Niyla Tinker, 2019’s Little Miss Dorchester, and Angie McGrath, that year’s Young Miss Dorchester, likely hold the distinction of having served in their roles for the longest of any Young Miss or Little Miss. As the girls entered the First Parish Church on May 21, a flood of memories from 2019 came rushing back – thoughts of a neighborhood tradition before Covid-19 that ....