Annual Greis Park Egg Hunt is a Hit

 
Lynbrook, NY -- Hundreds of colored Easter eggs dotted the Greis Park Field for Lynbrook's Annual Easter Egg Hunt held Monday, April  13.

As fast as the Easter Bunny hopped around to sprinkle the eggs around the park, it took Lynbrook's finest egg hunters even less time to scramble around the field to collect all the eggs.  The Annual Egg Hunt included special visits from Mayor Brian Curran, Deputy Mayor William Hendrick, Trsutee Alan Beach and new Trustee Mike Hawxhurst as well as the Easter Bunny.  Children feasted on cotton candy and Easter candy, worked on their hopping in an inflatable castle and raced up and down and all around on the inflatable slides and obstacle course.

The egg is the universal symbol of Easter celebrations throughout the world and has been dyed, painted, adorned and embellished in the celebration of its special symbolism.  Before the egg became closely entwined with the Christian Easter, it was honored during many rite-of-Spring festivals. The Romans, Gauls, Chinese, Egyptians and Persians all cherished the egg as a symbol of the universe. From ancient times eggs were dyed, exchanged and shown reverence.  In Pagan times the egg represented the rebirth of the earth. The long, hard winter was over; the earth burst forth and was reborn just as the egg miraculously burst forth with life. The egg, therefore, was believed to have special powers. It was buried under the foundations of buildings to ward off evil; pregnant young Roman women carried an egg on their persons to foretell the sex of their unborn children; French brides stepped upon an egg before crossing the threshold of their new homes.

With the advent of Christianity the symbolism of the egg changed to represent, not nature's rebirth, but the rebirth of man. Christians embraced the egg symbol and likened it to the tomb from which Christ rose.