Students Enjoy San Gennaro Feast in Little Italy

On the last day of this annual celebration in Little Italy, 50 members of the Blair community – led by faculty members Ryan and Jennifer Pagotto – headed to the Big Apple for the 79th Annual Feast of San Gennaro. According to its planners, this 11-day street festival is New York City’s oldest, biggest and best street fest. The official Web site for the event notes that it been presented in recent years by Figli di San Gennaro, Inc., a not-for-profit organization.

The site adds, “This year’s Feast again brought more than one million people to the streets of Little Italy in the annual salute to the Patron Saint of Naples. The street festivities – including parades, entertainment, food stands and a cannoli-eating contest – were capped with a celebratory Mass and candlelit procession as the Statue of the Saint was carried from its permanent home in Most Precious Blood Church on Mulberry Street. The feast is a time for remembrance and reconciliation, and a time for celebration. The good food, the free musical entertainment and the excitement were all there.” Posted 9/26/06

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