This Friday, November 28th is Fort Madison's annual lighted Holiday Parade and it is the largest lighted parade in Iowa. One of my very favorite events of the year, obviously many others enjoy it too, since it brings about 10,000 people to historic downtown Fort Madison.
I am always a tad fascinated by the pre-parade prep in and around town. The street cleaners were by this morning at about 5:30am. Right now, the tree service is in town, doing their annual tree pruning, they're doing a good job, the trees look nice. Rich, our chief parade organizer deserves lots of praise for pulling the parade together every year, it's a year long volunteer job. The downtown shops are decked out in all thier holiday finery. Parade floats are seen all over town for last minute light checks and repairs. Rich and crew will start lining them up on the parade route very early on Friday AM.
Pendemonium has a float and we put it in the parade two years ago. It is the old Sheaffer Pen Company float. Last year, we kept it out of the parade because it really needs some work. Argh, we didn't get the work done this summer and to add insult to the whole matter someone stole our generator for the float during an ice storm in town ... we were at the LA Pen Show. Quite aggravating, but hopefully it kept someone warm during the ice storm and power outage. So, no Pendemonium float this year and I know we have to work on this issue. I am putting the float for 2010 higher up on my priority list.
Here's a link to some photos Frank took in downtown Fort Madison during the 2006 holiday season. We hope you'll enjoy them. http://www.pendemonium.com/fmholidayseason06.htm
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