The food was the main attraction, if you want to judge this year's fair by what was selling. Business was slow for vendors of clothing, jewelry, books and other more durable merchandise, but this year there was a wider selection of Antillean-style food for sale, and people were buying it.

The quadrille is a West Indian dance tradition, which young people continue to learn and practice.

Congo dancing is a tradition that began with Panama's first black community, the Africans who were brought to the isthmus as slaves during Spanish colonial times. Here we have a blending of cultures, the congo tradition performed not in the traditional costumes that have been inherited from the colonial black community, but by people dressed in a West Indian tradition.

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