HOUGHTON — This Saturday is Michigan Tech’s Parade of Nations. It is an event I know quite well and have been a part of, in one way or another for most of the events 30+ year history. While I encourage you to attend the parade and multicultural festival that follows, I will be at neither as a family wedding takes a higher priority.

As I said, while I have been involved for more than 20 years, I rarely watched the parade itself. There were a couple of years in the late 90s where my wife, Maryann, and I provided the commentary for the local cable company’s broadcast of the parade on a public access channel. We took our job very seriously and spent hours doing research on the participating countries so as to offer interesting tidbits (“Did you know the capital of Nepal is also the name of a

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