Celebrating Culture

Guiding Questions For Sources

• What is being celebrated and valued?

• How can sport be a method of building culture and provide for cultural identity?

• How do both the Irish and Hispanic immigrant communities demonstrate pride in their culture? How do different ethnic communities celebrate pride in cultures in America today? Why is this meaningful to people? Is it more difficult for some groups to celebrate pride than others? Why? Do you celebrate a culture? Was it always easy for you to embrace this? Why?

• How might celebrations become a means of community organizing and building a grassroots base? Where do you see evidence of this?

Lawrence Eagle Tribune May 5 1967- “Opening Day Ceremony” (Picture)

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Lawrence Eagle Tribune April 13 1980- “Hispanics use soccer tourney to promote understanding” by Pete Goodwin

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Lawrence Eagle Tribune September 18 1983- “Hispanics, Irish Party on Block Apart” page B3

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Pilot, Volume 29, Number 13, 31 March 1866
Boston College Library

Lawrence Eagle Tribune November 18 2005

“Puerto Ricans Will Celebrate Discovery of Island Tomorrow”

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