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Connecticuts Puerto Rican parades and festivals, running from late June to mid-September, are a major event for the state with the highest share of Boricuas per capita. Waterburys parade, closing the season on September nineteenth, honors Taíno Indigenous roots with bomba music, dance, and cultural displays. Waterburys Afro Caribbean Cultural Center is expanding with a major Taíno exhibit from Yales Peabody Museum, and Alderman Rafael Feliciano-Roman, the states first Taíno chief, plans language classes. New London and Fairfield Countys parades also celebrate Taíno pride and the islands sounds and spirit. Parades start June twenty-seventh in New London, Meriden August second, New Haven the seventh and eighth, Hartford September thirteenth, and Waterbury to close the season.

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