Every year on the Saturday after Thanksgiving my wife and two daughters, along with my large extended family, put on layers and layers of warm clothes and head down to Main Street in Boonton, New Jersey to watch the town’s annual Christmas parade.
The parade usually includes local Girl Scout troops, a few small bands, representatives from the local historical society dressed in period costumes, plenty of firetrucks, and a host of Boonton residents walking the streets in Elmo, Scooby-Doo, and Mickey Mouse costumes. The highlight, of course, is the arrival of Santa Claus.
The festivities are nothing to write home about. There are no fancy bells and whistles. But the parade does serve as a celebration of the life of a particular community in a particular place.
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