Photos from La Fiesta de San Agustin on August 28

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Carolyn Sugiyama Classen was a 2008 Tucson Citizen My Tucson columnist. She was born and raised in a sugar plantation community on Hawai’i Island, then belonged to a Jesuit “koinonia” at the Paulist Center in Boston. She is a 3rd generation Japanese American and has studied Spanish, Japanese, German, and Hawaiian. She has been a practicing attorney, legislative aide on Capitol Hill (for U.S. Senator Dan Inouye), and is now a Hearing Officer in Small Claims Court. Carolyn has also published two short stories in Rick Carroll's 2006 "The Best of Hawaii's Best Spooky Tales."

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Photos from La Fiesta de San Agustin on August 28

by Carolyn Classen on Aug. 29, 2010, under Arts, Life

Wonderful multi-cultural, religious, birthday celebration at St. Augustine’s Cathedral downtown (192 S. Stone) last night, despite some monsoon rains. Photos courtesy of Tucson’s Birthday photographer Jon Scanlon.

Halau Hula O Ualani, The Maguire Academy of Irish Dance, Ballet Folklorico Tapatio, Los Changuitos Feos performed. And St. Augustine birthday cakes were enjoyed by all at the end of the fiesta.