Images by:

Jordan Silverman (JS)

Jay Ericson (JE)

Febrauary 25, 2005. Mardi Gras in Burlington. For the crowd of 20,000 in town to watch the parade, this may top the list of extraordinary events in Vermonts’ Queen City. For other residents at work or play, perhaps, it was just another Saturday.

On the streets and on the job, Seven Days photographers Jordan Silverman and Jay Ericson portray the day in pictures.

This article appears in Mar 2-8, 2005.

Pamela Polston is a contributing arts and culture writer and editor. She cofounded Seven Days in 1995 with Paula Routly and served as arts editor, associate publisher and writer. Her distinctive arts journalism earned numerous awards from the Vermont Press Association, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia and the New England Newspaper & Press Association. Pamela was inducted into the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame in 2015. In 2021, the Vermont Arts Council presented her with the Walter Cerf...