Photo courtesy of Bob McCarthyCousins Sophie Vireday, 6, and Xander Vireday, 4, helped celebrate Burn the Boogg in 2010. Here, the straw-filled "Old Man Winter" awaits the fire that will reduced ...

The Swiss have no such temerity opposing the perfidies of Nature. Unlike us, they do not whine. ... If the fire doesn’t do its job in a timely manner, they blow the Boogg up.

Tuesday marked the opening of the annual Alpenfest in Gaylord, capped off by their hottest event, the Burning of the Boogg. Stemming from a Swiss tradition, festival-goers have been writing down ...

"Boogg, a giant snowman of cotton wool, symbolizes winter to the Swiss, and they burn the statue yearly with colorful pageantry to celebrate the beginning of spring.

The Alpine Swiss Village comes alive tonight by putting an end to all the burdens and hardships of the past year. There is nothing quite like the burning of the Boogg, and it happens tonight.

Swiss used Zurich as a hub. We had never been ... And Sechseläuten traditionally concludes at 6 p.m. Monday with the burning of the Boogg — that snowman effigy, whose head is filled with ...

The demolition of the Böögg is part of the annual Sechseläuten festival, a Swiss tradition officially dating back to 1818 that really originates in the 13th century. Back then, Swiss workers ...