Does anyone have any special traditions for the Easter holiday?

Does anyone have any special traditions for the Easter holiday?
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I live on Long Island in New York, and every year for Easter my whole family from around the country would go to upstate New York in the Catskill Mts. My great grandfather owned a huge property of up there, so we would have a gigantic egg hunt
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