The Bok Kai Festival is a nonstop photo op, filled with colorful imagery, cultural celebration, regional history and human interest.
The 2012 Bok Kai Parade was the 132nd, the second oldest in California (after San Francisco). 

To download the 2012 Press Backgrounder in Word, click here.

To read some of the excellent coverage in the Appeal-Democrat about some of the people involved in the 2012 and 2011 Bok Kai Festival and Marysville's historic Chinatown, please click on any of the
following topical links:

2/27/12    Marysville's Annual Bomb Day 

2/26/12    Marysville's Bok Kai Parade is 'coolest thing'

2/17/12     Bok Kai Poster Harkens Back to Marysville Chinese Artist 

2/13/12     2012 Bok Kai Hostess Recalls Festival as Child

2/12/11      Marysville's Bok Kai Marks Year of the Dragon

3/2/11       Mailman Recalls the Chinatown He Knew

3/1/11        Bok Kai Hostess, Danille Chan Cosgrove

2/26/11    Beale Airmen Suited to be Dragon Carriers

2/22/11    2011 Grand Marshal, Charley Lim

 

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