July 5, 2002

• 4th of July

  
  

  Parade in

  
  

  Talkeetna

  
  

  

  
  

  When the parade started the batteries in my camera died.  By the time I replaced them, the parade was over. 

  
  

  
  
  

  
  

  
  
   

  
  

  Luckily, at the end of Main street, they turned around and did it again. I wonder how many other  4th parades feature an ice cream wagon, complete with loudspeakers playing jaunty carnival-type music, and a Brownie troop. 
   

  
  

  

  
  

  The Vets at the lead did their drill routine with touching ernestness, and a little girl was running around with an American flag in her mouth.  Take that, Osama! 

  
  

  
  
  

  
  
  

   
  

  

  
  

  Oh and a huge RV–one with more usable floor square footage than our own humble abode–inadvertently became the tail end of the parade.

  [ed. note:  I wish he'd gotten a shot of that.]

  
  

  

  
  

  Sound effects were provided by the sirens on the fire trucks and the big fire (or air raid, I dunno) siren on the roof of Nagley’s general store.

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  Images and text by Greyfox–feeble attempt to match text to images by Kathy

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