The 2007 Giglio Feast Approaches

If you're near the Union Avenue end of Havemeyer Street, you'll see a statue poking above the buildings. That would be the Giglio, standing ready for the Giglio Feast that starts on Thursday, July 5. As always, the Gigilio has been redesigned with new decorative elements, and it's brown and gold and white this year rather than last year's blue. ("How do you like our work?" one of the people that helped created asked us as he saw us taking photos of it yesterday.) The Giglio, which is five stories tall and weighs three tons (before the band), will be carried on Sunday, July 8 and July 15, plus weekday night lifts. It is, for our money, a must see. More information over at the Giglio site. You can see our 2006 photos here.