Eleventh Annual America’s Hometown Thanksgiving Parade Offers Fun, History, Tradition

Plymouth, Massachusetts, October 12, 2006. On Saturday morning, November 18, spectators of all ages will line the streets of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and gather at Cole’s Hill, to view the eleventh annual America’s Hometown Thanksgiving Parade. Event attendance is expected to surpass the 2005 attendance, which was estimated by the Plymouth Police Department to be over 140,000.

Along with an appearance by the world-famous Budweiser Clydesdales, the unique parade features spectacular handcrafted floats that accurately depict historical events and heroes from American history. Inspiring historical re-enactors, military units and marching bands further aggrandize the parade. It’s all a meaningful reminder of how patriotism and honor has persevered through American history, beginning with a small band of courageous Pilgrims who survived their first harsh winter in New England and celebrated by proclaiming a day of Thanksgiving in 1620.

Touted by the Patriot Ledger as “One of New England’s most successful events,” the Thanksgiving Parade is the highlight of a full weekend of festivities. The celebration is launched by honoring American veterans and armed forces with a patriotic concert at Plymouth’s Memorial Hall on Friday evening. Back by popular demand, Tops in Blue, the United States Air Force premier entertainment unit from San Antonio, Texas, will dazzle audiences once again with their singing and dancing.

On parade day, some of New England’s most renowned culinary personalities are on board at the New England Food Festival, to provide delectable chowders, soups, and desserts for hungry parade spectators, and to vie for favored status and prestige in the food competition. The Food Festival is housed in a giant heated hospitality tent on the historic Plymouth waterfront.

The Thanksgiving celebration weekend ends at Memorial Hall, with an uplifting concert of trumpets and drums performed by National Senior Drum and Bugle Corps and crowd favorite, world-renown Fife and Drum Corp, The American Originals.

For more information about America’s Hometown Thanksgiving Parade or other events mentioned, please visit http://www.usathanksgiving.com/ or contact Dale Winspeare, Winspeare Media Group at 781-586-0381.

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