Don’t forget, you can buy your Dyngus Day tickets early from the Central Terminal at Brown Paper Tickets. Beat the line at the door!!
2010 Dyngus Day Buffalo Schedule Released
BUFFALO, NEW YORK, March 18, 2010 – More than 30 locations will serve as official venues for Buffalo’s 2010 Dyngus Day celebration. This marks another year of growth for the post-Lenten party that attracts upwards of 100,000 people at sites spread across Western New York. To assist Dyngus Day party participants, Dyngus Day Buffalo has released a complete schedule of events on its website: www.DyngusDayBuffalo.com.
Dyngus Day Buffalo provides marketing and organizational support to Dyngus Day celebrations in the Buffalo-Niagara region. In partnership with public and private organizations, Dyngus Day Buffalo promotes Buffalo, New York as the Dyngus Day Capital of the World. The goal of Dyngus Day Buffalo is to reinforce its cultural significances through public awareness and education, and to promote Polish customs with accuracy, integrity, and liveliness.
A Polish-American tradition, Dyngus Day celebrates the end of the restrictive observance of Lent and the joy of Easter. Over the decades, Buffalo, New York, has become the Dyngus Day Capital of the World, attracting thousands of people from across the northeast United States. Although celebrated in Buffalo’s Polonia neighborhood since the arrival of the first Poles in the 1870s, the city’s first modern Dyngus Day celebration was held 49 years ago by the Chopin’s Singing Society, a tradition that continues today.
Dyngus Day 2010 will take place on Monday, April 5th.
Off topic, but has anyone seen this, from the Trains Magazine Newswire on their website:
Published: Wednesday, March 31, 2010
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The Western New York Railway Historical Society plans to consolidate its equipment and railroad memorabilia scattered throughout the state into six buildings it has bought or is in the process of acquiring at a site in South Buffalo, according to a story in The Buffalo News . . .The society is planning to operate two excursion passenger trains beginning in 2011 after building track and platforms along Prenatt Street that’s adjacent to the site. Plans include occasional trips to Buffalo Central Terminal, which saw its last passenger train in 1979, and special excursions throughout the region to destinations such as Niagara Falls, Medina, and Jamestown, N.Y., and possibly Cleveland on Norfolk Southern …
Sounds like a monumental undertaking, with a lot of red tape to wriggle through before any ground is broken to re-lay track on a roadbed, much less operate an excursion train. (I remember over 20 years ago they sponsered excursions with the NKP 765, and N&W 611 and 1218. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to ride on any of those, but I did catch the 611 steamed up going through Dunkirk once. The 611 and 1218 are now mothballed in Roanoke, and the 1218 was disassembled and in mid rebuild when the order got handed down that NS was terminating their steam program. It was put back together by volunteers, after being moved in pieces, enough to display at the Claytor pavilion, alongside the 611, at the Virginia Museum of Transportation, but for the most part, it is just a shell now.) The WNYRHS venture would be a good idea, if they can get the support from the various agencies needed to make it a reality, but even then, it might be a long way off. Maybe someone at the CTRC should contact the WNYRHS to find out more details. (If we can get the foot traffic going through the terminal, I’d like to see the Pennsy I-1sa #4483 and other WNYRHS rolling stock occasionally brought up to the terminal for display at events, like the train show, if tracks do go back in someday!) BTW, I’m planning to be up for Dyngus Day, spring cleanup, and hopefully a Saturday morning work session soon. I have an appointment with the eye doctor this coming Saturday morning, and some things to take care of at home this weekend. Happy Easter, all!