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The History of the Burning of Will Shuster's Zozobra
URL: http://www.zozobra.com/history.html

Description:
"Zozobra is a hideous but harmless fifty-foot bogeyman marionette" that is created and burned each year as part of the Santa Fe Fiesta. "The Zozobra event is staged each year by the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe as a fiery and exciting kick-off to the annual Fiestas de Santa Fe during the weekend following Labor Day." Includes images of Zozobra and a description of the first public Zozobra burning in 1926.

LII Topics: New Mexico, U.S. History By Place

Publisher:
Santa Fe Downtown Kiwanis Foundation

LII Database Information:
Record 24296 created by Maria Brandt on 08/14/2007
Last modification on 08/20/2007
Published: 08/23/2007  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/24296

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