Marian Days

Every year, more than 60,000 Vietnamese Catholics travel to Carthage, Missouri for Marian Days. I will be heading there tomorrow to do a story for NPR. My story is on a Vietnamese-American who needs to find a bone marrow donor. Your best chances for a match are with people who are in your ethnic group. So, she's coming from Dallas to Carthage to get more ethnic Vietnamese people to sign up for the bone marrow registry. My story will air Friday afternoon on All Things Considered. Brad and I are thinking about taking Zeke to Marian Days this weekend, especially for one of the times when they play traditional Vietnamese folk music.