Going to our first Christmas Parade

Today we took the twins to their first Christmas Parade. Many countries hold Christmas pageants or Santa Claus parades to celebrate the official beginning of the Christmas seasons, but they are most common in North America. Countless festivals were founded by large downtown department stores, which would start the parade at the city’s edge and finish it at their business’ front door. The obvious goal was to motivate the pubic into the Christmas gift giving mood and then lead them right into their store for purchasing. The Owensboro Christmas Parade was founded by the downtown merchants association in 1936. While most other city’s parades have declined with the emergence of urban sprawl, our pageant has somehow continued to flourish. Now in its 72 year, the Owensboro Christmas Parade is the largest in the tri-state.