Spring traditions and celebrations bring diverse groups of Wisconsinites together

MADISON (WKOW) -- Wisconsin is a cultural melting pot, with many people in the state celebrating different traditions and holidays.

This time of year, we all experience a bit of a seasonal shift, and that gets celebrated in a number of ways...

..."We have Passover this month," he said. "We have Orthodox Easter, we have western Christian Easter in this month, but we also have the end of Ramadan, as a celebration within the Islamic tradition."....

..."It`s just a wonderful aspect of our world and of our state that we can talk to each other and find out about those traditions," he said. "Often, because these spring traditions haven`t been standardized in the way that Christmas has, when you talk to somebody about what they do at Easter time or Passover, it will be something that our grandparents did. You stretch back into the history of that family and that community in wonderful ways."...

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Ken Notes: Great observations, we should celebrate the diversity that makes Wisconsin a great place to live...