No one can remember when the first Fourth of July Burns Park Neighborhood parade took place. The flyers were stapled to telephone poles throughout the neighborhood this year, again by a few informal volunteers, who also drove the one and only car leading the parade. We walked up the parade route, a few blocks from home, and met it coming down Olivia Street.
"Don't let it touch the ground!" said the mother (above) to the baby trying to wave a flag.
The most recent parade I attended before today was around 28 years ago. Evelyn and her friend Becky had a float on a red wagon. Our dog Dolly won a prize that year for wearing a patriotic bandana. The dog in the photo above looks a little like Dolly. Nobody was awarding prizes this year, but watermelon was served to all at Burns Park, the end of the parade route.
Houses along the route -- and all over the neighborhood -- were ready for the Fourth.
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We remember the beginning. We lived on Minerva and my wife and a neighbor next door decided that it would be a great idea to have a 4th of July parade for the kids. They put up flyers on poles and called the police department who agreed to send a car for an escort. The first year there were about 10 families, and then it took off. Our various children decorated their bikes, then and now
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