“They don’t have to be Italian”: A Catholic church in Brooklyn seeks recruits to lift its 4-ton festival tower
The gentrification of Brooklyn, N.Y., has come to this: For the first time in 116 years, Our Lady of Mount Carmel has been forced to actively recruit men to hoist a four-ton tower on poles and dance it down the street in the middle of summer.
Since 1903, hundreds of the church’s congregants have locked arms and carried the multistory tower, called the “Giglio,” through the Williamsburg neighborhood during a July festival honoring an Italian saint. The Giglio, adorned with religious icons and faintly resembling a wedding cake,...
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