Dane Buy Local Venetian Night

A Boat Parade of Lights on Lake Mendota!

What Local Business Floats YOUR Boat?

Local boat owners docked at Skipper Buds, offered a sea of support that helped Dane Buy Local and many of its members launch Madison's 1st Annual Dane Buy Local Venetian Night ~ A Boat Parade of Lights on Lake Mendota.

Led by the official Dane Buy Local boat, The Grand Mariner, nearly thirty additional decorated boats followed the shoreline of our magnificent Lake Mendota at dusk on September 6, 2009. The event and its theme: "What Local Business Floats Your Boat" was hailed a huge success! Scuttlebutt among Dane Buy Local includes plans for an even bigger event in 2010.

View video footage taken by Patrick Brooks of Boonetown Productions of parade highlights and fireworks.

View video footage taken by Julia Rymut of Amethyst Dreams.

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“In our neighborhoods and villages, we have the power to build a resilient economy—one less dependent on the megasystems of finance and production that have proved to be so unreliable. Most enterprise begins locally, in garages, basements, and dining rooms. The first dollars in any new business come from family and friends…As families and neighbors, we h...

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"A local economy values the real over the virtual world. An investment on a computer screen is one thing; an investment in a company in your hometown quite another".
--Woody Tasch, Slow Money

Get Local

Thursday, June 20 | 5pm - 8pm

Organized by Dane Buy Local, Solstice Stroll is an opportunity for various locally owned businesses in Dane County to stay open late to celebrate the upcoming longest day of the year! Visit over 40 businesses to mingle, enjoy refreshments, demonstrations, special incentives and learn more about what you do to help keep our community vibrant and thriving.

CLICK HERE to read more about Solstice Stroll 2013.

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