More scaling back at Forest Hills: No Day of the Dead commemoration this year

By adamg on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 6:23pm

Ron Newman gets e-mail from the Forest Hills Educational Trust that the cemetery has put the kibosh on the trust's once annual Nov. 2 celebration of the Mexican ritual.

JP fans of the mystical will instead have to content themselves with this coming weekend's Lantern Festival at Jamaica Pond.

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Jamaica Plain

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Jamaica Pond

Forest Hills Cemetery

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At Forest Hills, every day is

By NotWhitey on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 6:48pm.

At Forest Hills, every day is the Day of the Dead.

More like Night of the Living

By anon on Thu, 10/20/2011 - 12:05am.

More like Night of the Living Dead.
Quincy Center is Dawn Of The Dead, fyi.

I blame Whole Foods

By SwirlyGrrl on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 9:45pm.

First they replace HiLo, and the whole area loses ethnicity ...
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Who do they think they are, a Somerville principal?

By O-FISH-L on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 10:57pm.

Banning Día de los Muertos? Who do they think they are, a Somerville principal?