Starting today and running through Sunday is our town's version of a Spring Celebration.It's called Strasburg Mayfest and even it has no shame. Each event has a sponsor to provide the festival with a little up-front cash and the business, some cheap advertising.
Sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce and the Town of Strasburg, the festivities actually began Wednesday night with the opening of the Lion's Club Carnival on the Town Lot. Last night saw a Luncheon and today's activities include a performance of the Grand Ole Opry (don't even want to know how permission was obtained from Nashville for a local musical) and the Stover Funeral Home Street Dance.
The fire department has a pancake breakfast tomorrow morning and after filling up on carbs, one can run in the 5-K race down by the river on the new $87,000 path.
Food concessionaires will be clogging most of downtown making vehicular traffic a nightmare. Sure hope we don't have another of our weekly tractor-trailer wrecks on the Interstate -- I don't know where the extra traffic will be detoured if that happens (well, I do but I don't want to think about it as our road is the only other alternative).
The Arthur, Allamong and Brown, PC Parade kicks off at 4 pm (and will end approximately 15 minutes later). The parade Grand Marshall this year is The Lone Ranger and Silver and the sports grand marshall is olympic gold medalish Mary Wayte Bradburne.
More activities are planned for downtown and at the local town park (Hometown Park) the remainder of the weekend.
I hope all my readers will partake of this exciting time in our neck of the woods. Come visit, spend your money and have a good time. We won't even be close to it, however.
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I couldn't have said it better. Thanks for your excellent post and keep them coming.
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