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Speaker 1: gooldra dot com. Excited to visit today with Elizabeth Kahana
Speaker 1: also known as Ea Kahana, and she's got a new
Speaker 1: book out. It's called Come Join the Parade, and millions
Speaker 1: of people from all around the world will be tuned
Speaker 1: in tomorrow to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. And
Speaker 1: this is a really big deal. And the thing that's
Speaker 1: really cool, Elizabeth, you have like the very best vantage
Speaker 1: point ever to watch this parade right out your window,
Speaker 1: don't you.
Speaker 2: Yes, I do, third floor window. You could just reach
Speaker 2: out and touch those big antic character balloons. There's nothing
Speaker 2: like it.
Speaker 1: And so you got like the front row seat, best
Speaker 1: seat ever. You don't have to be out. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if it's cold, if it's windy, any of that.
Speaker 1: You get to sit in the comfort of your own home.
Speaker 1: And you started taking photos of these amazing characters that
Speaker 1: come through the parade. How long ago did you start
Speaker 1: doing this project?
Speaker 2: Over twenty five years? And you know, I hadn't planned
Speaker 2: in making to make a book, but it's just what
Speaker 2: I do. I'm a photographer. I've got this amazing vantage
Speaker 2: point unlike a kid during a parade. I love parades.
Speaker 2: I have parades from all over the world. I've photograph
Speaker 2: praids in Cuba, in Peru, lots of other places. But
Speaker 2: then there's a Macy Thanksgiving Day parade. It's a parade
Speaker 2: like no other. And there I have my third floor perch,
Speaker 2: from my third floor window, as I like to say,
Speaker 2: Miracle on sixty fourth Street.
Speaker 1: Nice, very very nice. And the cool thing is this
Speaker 1: parade is something people look forward to every single year,
Speaker 1: and there are people that travel a great distance to
Speaker 1: go to this parade. Again, you don't have to travel
Speaker 1: at all. It's right there. You wake up and look
Speaker 1: out the window. But you get to also, through this book,
Speaker 1: you get to deliver this parade right to my doorstep.
Speaker 1: And I can flip through the pages and see some
Speaker 1: really cool things.
Speaker 2: Can I exactly? And that was really the hope is
Speaker 2: it's an opportunity to share with the viewer. A more
Speaker 2: intimate perspective that you're not going to get from the street,
Speaker 2: and it's from my home. Every single photo in the
Speaker 2: book except one is from my rooftop that gives you
Speaker 2: a sense of location. And then one at the end,
Speaker 2: I went down to the street while they were having
Speaker 2: a snowball fight with confetti. But every single photo is
Speaker 2: from my third flow window from my home that I
Speaker 2: want to share with others. And it's over the years,
Speaker 2: so you get to really enjoy the parade as not
Speaker 2: in the sense as it's going by so fast, but
Speaker 2: you can take your time. You can set down with others,
Speaker 2: read the dig you nose with your grandchildren or your friends,
Speaker 2: and enjoy the book as if you're experiencing this intimate
Speaker 2: parade yourself.
Speaker 1: And the thing is really you. As I'm looking at
Speaker 1: this book right now and again, I'm going to throw
Speaker 1: a link to make it easy for other people to
Speaker 1: find it as well as I'm looking at this the images.
Speaker 1: First of all, you're an amazing photographer, so that I
Speaker 1: think goes without saying. But your vantage point, it really
Speaker 1: is the perfect vantage point to get these photos, isn't it.
Speaker 2: I know, I know it's true. I mean there's one shot.
Speaker 2: Let me see if like I have the book with me. Oh,
Speaker 2: here it is. It's page for those who have the book,
Speaker 2: or we'll get the book one fifty and it's a
Speaker 2: diary of a wimpy kid is going by and literally
Speaker 2: his whole space is just in the window. It's hysterical.
Speaker 2: But you get to see the wrinkles and the balloons
Speaker 2: and the patchwork and the stitchings, and you don't really
Speaker 2: get that from the street.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know where these balloons are made,
Speaker 1: but we live in sue Fall, South Dakota, and a
Speaker 1: lot of these balloons are made right here in sue Fall,
Speaker 1: South Dakota.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, let's try it. I have read that, and
Speaker 2: I may be in one way. Did you know?
Speaker 1: Is actually and this year one of the high school
Speaker 1: marching bands will be from sue Fall, South Dakota as well.
Speaker 1: Lincoln High School is going to be there there. They
Speaker 1: were traveling there this whole week, so it was fun
Speaker 1: to kind of follow their journey as they're heading to
Speaker 1: New York to be a part of the Macy's Parade
Speaker 1: this year. And again in this book, you'll see the
Speaker 1: images of the things that are really big floating by.
Speaker 1: But another fun part of the parade are all these
Speaker 1: marching bands they come through as well.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you told me, because I'm going to
Speaker 2: look for them and I'm gonna get some good shots
Speaker 2: to them, all right. People don't know this. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: so glad you told me this. But behind the scenes,
Speaker 2: there's a judging group with the parade and high schools
Speaker 2: around the country and I think colleges too. They submit
Speaker 2: their bands to be chosen for the parade. It's not
Speaker 2: so easy. It's some stiff competition. It's a really big
Speaker 2: deal to be chosen, and I understand it. When they
Speaker 2: do choose you, it's kind of a surprise. They'll show
Speaker 2: up at your school and say, guess what, You've been
Speaker 2: selected to march in the Macy's Parade. And then there's
Speaker 2: another band, the Macy's American Great American Band, and those
Speaker 2: are individuals that are chosen around the country each year
Speaker 2: to march in that particular band. So, yeah, Sue falls All,
Speaker 2: I got to look for you watching band in the
Speaker 2: Macy's Parade.
Speaker 1: Nice. Well, I appreciate you taking your collection. Yeah, very nice.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking the time to visit with me
Speaker 1: about this, and thank you also for sharing these photos
Speaker 1: that you again have the perfect vantage point to watch
Speaker 1: the parade each and every year and you snap the photos.
Speaker 1: And again, I love the fact that you put out
Speaker 1: this book, Come Join the Parade, and again it is
Speaker 1: a beautiful one hundred and sixty images, one hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty eight pages, and you get to see the Macy's
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Day parade over the course of the last quarter
Speaker 1: of a century, and it is I just think a
Speaker 1: very well done book. So thank you for taking the
Speaker 1: time to chat and thank you for doing this.
Speaker 2: Thank you, John, I love talking to you, and thanks
Speaker 2: for inviting me on. I can't wait to see your
Speaker 2: hometown parade band in the parade this year.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you so much. And again I'm going
Speaker 1: to throw a link to make it easy to find
Speaker 1: the book. It's called Come Join the Parade, and I've
Speaker 1: got a link to it at Facebook dot com slash
Speaker 1: Sunny Radio and Facebook dot com slash Sue Falls News. Hey,
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