Our Pap would have loved the Pulaski Polka Days Parade. The queen toted a baritone. A regal vet drive an electric scooter with a tiny dog on his running board. Candy flew from floats like snowflakes on a December afternoon. The high school bands stretched full city blocks. A trumpeter with one arm in a [...]
So proudly we hailed Rocky Bleier this weekend, the grand marshal of the country’s largest Flag Day parade. The Appleton native, army veteran, Purple Heart award recipient and four-time Super Bowl champion led one of the best Flag Day parades we’ve seen. He worked the crowd ahead of the parade, shaking hands, especially with fellow [...]
I watched the Appleton Christmas Parade march festively up College Avenue last night and I wondered what Harry Houdini must think of the little city he called home. Certainly, he must be impressed with the show -- friendly ballerinas, bundled babies, 19 marching bands, spirited nursing home residents zipping around in decorated wheel chairs, carolers, [...]
We love a good parade in Wisconsin, almost as much as we love a good hunk of cheese, and we enjoyed both a few weeks ago at the Suring Centennial Labor Day Parade. Really, the Booyah would have been enough, but, in honor of its biggest birthday yet, Suring offered us so much more. We [...]