The Wandering I

Been a bit busy over the last week or two so I’m running behind.  Last weekend the was a “big” parade in Millstone Borough just across the D&R Canal and the Millstone River from us in EAST Millstone.  Our next door neighbors, who are the parents of Corinna, called to see if we would like to go to the W3R parade and celebration over there [ I was trying to figure out what the W3R meant, at first I thought it had to do with the fact that Washington's and Rochambeau's armies passed through Millstone three ( 3 ) times during the American Revolution.  There's so much Revolutionary history all through Central New Jersey that after a bit you can recite it from memory ].  Audrey had a group of friends coming over to the barn but I was available so I went along.

This was absolutely an event for the kids in the Boro which was great!  There was a demonstration of Dutch dancing [ don't know who else would try to dance in wooden clogs! ]

Then the parade started out and traveled the three blocks from the Reformed Church up Main Street to the Boro Hall.  I just slipped back into the ol’ ways of the PJ gettin in really tight on folks [ I'm sure the fellow at the top of this entry thought I was out of my mind to be walking backwards about four inches from the tip of his campaign banner, but he was cool and didn't break character]. I guess the muscle memory just kicked in and the back steppin’ was fine …

Girl Scouts, Brownies, Cub Scouts, you name an organization for kids and they were there [ 4H? ].

After the parade there was a reenactment by a storyteller told from the perspective of a slave that was really quit good the games and face painting for kids and hot dogs and hamburgers soda and homemade sallads for everyone.  Corinna met her first enactor [ notice King George hanging in effigy in the background ] and she really had a great time!

Don’ try to tell me that you’re going to find something as small as this in any city!  This is what I love about this being out here,   God is great, beer is good and people are crazy .

Nat

Somewhere in rural New Jersey