On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Ken Norton<ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Our Fourth of July parades tend to reflect the, uh, local industry? It's
> not unusual to have a few dozen........ok, make that a couple hundred
> restored classic tractors in the parade. Snoooze. It's funny because my
> father-in-law got quite animated a couple years ago when half the tractors
> in the parade were NEWER than the ones he was still using on the farm!
> Fortunately, as I had to ride in the Grinnell parade, this year, I was
> pleased to note the surprising lack of John Deere tractors. Grinnell is also
> a trucking town, so there were a bunch of big rigs, though. Our parade
> route was about two-miles long, and we tossed somewhere around 100 pounds of
> candy.
I'll bet it was fun to scramble for all those archival samples thrown
from the Wilhelm float.
Joel W.
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