It may be different where you live, but in Beacon Falls, where our office manager Karl lives, whenever one of the high school sports teams wins a conference championship, the team is welcomed back home. The team bus is met downtown and escorted back to the high school. The town’s fire engines and police vehicles, with lights flashing and sirens blaring, are joined by other vehicles in a parade to the school.
There are many other traditional parades. Every four years there is the inaugural parade in Washington. Many places have annual parades for some holidays. Several Disney parks have parades every day.
These many parades range from simple to extravagant. They may be simple ones with the local high school band, the trucks from the fire department with lights flashing, and floats constructed on a flat bed trailer pulled by someone’s pickup. Then there are the extravagant one with bands from all over the country, elaborate floats that are self driven, and hundreds of costumed characters.
This Sunday we hear about and participate in a very simple parade. There were no marching bands. No decorated floats. No flashing lights. Just one man riding not in a convertible, but on a donkey. And the crowd waving palm branches and laying them in the street.
Join us this Sunday to be in the parade and find out what happened afterwards.