It's a depressing thought but barring a wedding or two to come, the biggest gatherings will be at funerals. |
The custom of providing hospitality at wakes or funerals is well documented for the seventeenth century. |
Lively wakes are held after Polish funerals, with toasts and tributes to the deceased. |
Only at funerals are chopsticks stuck into the rice that is put onto the altar. |
Now, after 343 of them perished in the terrorist attacks, there are just too many funerals, wakes and memorial services to get round them all. |
Both wakes and funerals for Peter and Martin were attended by some of the largest crowds ever seen at funeral services in the Bronx and Yonkers. |