One World Day 2009
Parade of Nations
Cleveland Cultural Gardens
September 20, 2009

The annual One World Day celebration was held in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens on Sunday September 20, 2009. The host Garden for the 2009 event was the Polish Garden. Marchers with flags, and often in native costumes, lined up at the Italian Garden before the Parade and then marched down East Boulevard.

African-American marchers at One World Day 2009

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Croatian marchers

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Estonian marchers Erika Puussaar and her husband

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Finnish marchers

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German marchers Hans and Mrs Kopp
and David and Renate Jakupca

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Hungarian Scouts and marchers

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Raj Pillai and Sheila Murphy Crawford
represent India and Ireland

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Irish marchers Sheila Murphy Crawford with the Johnstons - Erin, Gary and Diane

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Latvian marchers

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Lithuanian

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Polish

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Greater Cleveland Russian Chorus

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Rusyn marchers

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Slovak marchers

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Lining up for the Parade of Nations

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The Parade begins!

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German

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Czech

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Slovak

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Providing a beat for the marchers

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Hungarian

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Hungarian

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Estonian

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African-American

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Finnish

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Indian

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Irish

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Italian

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Latvian

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Polish

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Polish

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Polish

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Ray Saikus marches past the Latvian delegation

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Scottish and Croatian

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Greater Cleveland Russian Chorus

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The Greater Cleveland Russian Chorus sang as they marched.

The marchers paraded into the Polish Gardens which was packed with people.