The purpose of this thread is to share information about Easter customs throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere in the world.

I've found a number of archived Mudcat threads on Easter customs. Unfortunately, several of those threads are closed to additional comments. I wanted to post a comment to one of those threads about my childhood remembrances of making Easter baskets out of paper, dying Easter eggs, participating in Easter egg hunts, attending church service on Easter Sunday morning, and then showing off my newly bought Easter clothes, shoes, and hat by strolling down the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey. After that walk, my sisters and I would go home and would sit down to a special Easter Sunday dinner that featured a number of dishes, but always included ham.

I apologize for starting this thread if there are recent threads on this subject that I'm not aware of. Because of the glitch that occurred to {with?} Mudcat's internal search engine, it appears that that seach engine [still} doesn't list threads from a certain date on. Before I started this thread, I waited to see if anyone else would start a general thread on this subject. Since no one else has done so, I'm taking this opportunity to start a discussion on Easter customs-or actually, to revive a discussion that was started on several other Mudcat threads. In subsequent posts to this thread, I'll list the customs that I've read about in several archived Mudcat threads and I'll provide the links to those threads.

Please feel free to post to this thread and thanks in advance for your post/s.