In 1987, as part of my Indiana Arts Commission grant project on Ethnic Dance Music in Northern Indiana, I visited South Bend to witness one of the largest Dyngus Day celebrations in the United States.\u00a0 A notable Hoosier I met that day was Frank O’Bannon, who was then running for the Democratic nomination for governor.\u00a0 He settled for the office of Lieutenant Governor the following year.\u00a0 In 1996, he was elected governor, and led the state through a period of prosperity.\u00a0 His second term in office was cut short by an untimely stroke in 2003.\u00a0 His term was finished by Lieutenant Governor Joe Kernan of South Bend.\u00a0 In my notes below from 1987, I misidentified Mr. Kernan as Joe Kearney, who was then a candidate for mayor of South Bend.\u00a0 But Dyngus Day is a Polish celebration, and Mr. Kernan’s opponent in the Democratic primary, Richard Jasinski, received a much heartier welcome.\u00a0 Here are my fieldnotes from that day.<\/p>\n
South Bend, Indiana – songs, dance music [Polish] – April 20,1987 In 1987, as part of my Indiana Arts Commission grant project on Ethnic Dance Music in Northern Indiana, I visited South Bend to witness one of the largest Dyngus Day celebrations in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,15],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-notes","tag-polish-music","tag-south-bend"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xBve-2K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/drdsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/drdsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/drdsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/drdsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/drdsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/drdsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/drdsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/drdsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/drdsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/drdsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDyngus Day celebration at Mike Berta’s Place<\/a>, a bar
\nJerry Kurdys’ Polka Party<\/a>
\n(click links above for musical selections and field notes)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"