My mom suggested today that I blog about our town's Sesquicentennial Celebration. That's 150 years!
It's also our church's Sesquicentennial and the picture above is our pastor portraying an early Methodist circuit rider in yesterday's parade. It was awfully brave of him - I don't think he'd been on a horse before!
Edited to add:
See those 2 green circles in the street between the horse's front feet? The local 4-H horse club sponsored a game called "Road Apple Bingo" this year. You purchased those circles for $1 each, wrote your name on yours, and placed them in the street anywhere on the parade route before the parade started. During the parade, if a horse left a "deposit" on your bingo card you won a prize! I thought that was pretty clever.
The celebration continues through this weekend with an all-school reunion and several other goings-on. Small town fun at its best!
posted by sugarcreekfarm at Wednesday, July 05, 2006
3 Comments:
How cool (especially if he's never been on a horse...)! Sounds like a really fun celebration.
I've been thrown from a horse, so I'm a big chicken, and horses know it the second I get on their back. Must...use...yoga...breathing...when...riding...
:-) Genie
The Inadvertent Gardener
Lurking through blogs today and happened upon your blog. I was born in Riceville, so this brings me home.
thanks for the memories
Genie - We had a horse last year and it was ridiculous. We didn't know what we were doing, and he knew it. He went to a nice young 4-H girl.
edellen - glad you found us!
Linda - I thought the bingo idea was brilliant!
farminglassie - thanks for stopping by!
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