We love a parade, and no one does it like Kennett Square!
Kennett Square’s traditional Memorial Day Parade honoring local veterans will kick off on Monday, May 27, at 10 a.m. Included in the parade are antique military vehicles and convertibles, bag pipers, fife and drums, Civil War and Revolutionary War Re-enactors, color guard groups, high school bands, little league teams and more. The parade ends at the Union Hill Cemetery with a memorial gun salute.
The parade is Kennett Square’s biggest of the year, featuring at least 1,000 participants and lasting for about 90 minutes. Highlights for 2013 include the Joseph A. Ferko Mummers String Band, the Marine Color Guard, over 100 veterans in antique military vehicles and convertibles, the Dixie Demon Alumni Band, the Penn Dixie Band, Christiana Clampetts, Lion Club Band, Ameri-Kids Choral, Camptown Shakers Civil War Band, Bayard Middle School’s Drumline, a 1899 Carousel Street Organ, antique bikes, Uncle Sams, Shriner’s Mini Cycles, an antique helicopter, 1940s Andrew Sisters, service clubs, churches, floats, Upland Country Day School, Singing Summer Camp Choral, Scouts, KAU Little League, the Chinese Folk Dance Troupe, the Chinese American Community Center Lion Dance Club, fire companies, high school marching bands, drum & bugle corps and bagpipers.
The 2013 Memorial Day Parade route starts at Kennett High School, enters East South Street, turns onto South Broad Street, turns left onto West State Street, turns right onto North Union Street, and ends at the Union Hill Cemetery on left.
Photos courtesy of Historic Kennett Square.
