Today was our town’s Old Home Day, a day to celebrate our town by townsfolk past and present.
The day starts with a pancake breakfast at our local church and a 5K footrace that starts in our town’s “Village”, an area that is a historical district and includes homes and buildings dating back as early as the early 1800’s.
Later in the morning is a parade that starts at Town Hall and ends near our high school which is next to the big town cemetery. Once that has finished every heads to the Village Field which has food and crafts for sale, and games and amusements galore. Those activities last until early evening when a concert by our community band at the bandstand. Then around 9pm the fireworks start.
Those aren’t the only activities taking place as our local church hosts a “White Elephant” sale which has all kinds of things for sale. The WP Mom has helped deal with the jewelry up for sale for the past 20 years. There’s also a silent auction that takes place at the same time.
I can personally attest that the food offered for sale by the various food vendors was pretty darned good, having performed my duty to ensure the quality of the food being offered. There was pizza, steak and cheese sandwiches, fried dough, Chinese food, barbecue, sweet sausage, baked goods, ice cream, and a whole host of other foods for sale. The lines of people waiting to order or to pick up their food were long, but moved quickly.
There were plenty of amusements available running from bouncy houses and up through a bull-riding machine. Someone selling e-bikes was offering test drives around the Village Field.
The number of crafts for sale ran the gamut of crocheted table place-mats to mixed spices, pictures, some jewelry, and so on.
There were a lot more people attending than I’ve seen over the years. There were a lot more people both watching and participating in the parade than I’ve seen in years.
It was a darned good Old Home Day!
