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Published April 22, 2012, 12:00 AM

Photo Gallery: Smelt Run Puppet Parade


Leading participants in the Smelt Run Puppet Parade, the Queen Smelt begins the march from Canal Park to Zeitgeist Arts Cafe Sunday. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)

  • Leading participants in the Smelt Run Puppet Parade, the Queen Smelt begins the march from Canal Park to Zeitgeist Arts Cafe Sunday. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
  • Hannah Grunzke, left, tapes Steve Rodriques to his stilts before Sunday’s parade. Several stilt-walkers led the parade. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
  • Rachel Mock, dressed for her role as a member f the Royal Court for Sunday’s Smelt Run Puppet Parade. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
  • Michael Gabler, left, of the community garden program, and Jamie Harvie put the finishing touches on a beet before Sunday’s parade. Beets are the program’s vegetable of the year. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
  • A several-piece band provided music during Sunday’s event. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
  • Prior to Sunday’s parade, puppeteers performed a brief skit that included handheld foil smelt on a stick. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
  • On the audience side of a screen two smelters try to net the silver fish. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
  • Near the end of the skit the smelt joined smelters on the audience side of the screen, and swam circles around them. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
  • Several smelt join the crowd during the parade from Canal Park to Zeitgeist Arts Cafe. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
  • Stilt-walkers led Sunday’s Smelt Run Puppet Parade on Duluth’s Lakewalk. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)