i expect our house to be brimming with visitors next year after you all see the kind of fun felton brews up each and every memorial day weekend...
the felton remembers parade kicks off the festivities on saturday morning. this is your classic small town parade...complete with fire trucks (new and old), 4-Hers, dancers, and bagpipers. we were short on princesses and tractors, but otherwise it lives up to my small town minnesota parade memories.
the party then moves to the covered bridge park for a day long festival that includes microbrews, sausages, burgers, snow cones as big as your head, games for kids, many local vendors, and hours of live music. the park is steps from our house so we can enjoy the music from the privacy of our deck...for better or worse.
covered bridge in felton
and then, just when you thought it couldn't get any more exciting in this town of 1,600 people, the cannons start firing and the civil war is happening all over again. if you have yet to witness a reenactment, i highly recommend it! roaring camp railroad in felton has a 3-day reenactment every memorial day weekend. (this is the first year cassie has been completely deaf and it is kind of a blessing. they start "practicing" cannon fire on wednesday and fire multiple cannons multiple times a day through monday. cassie has been blissfully unaware of all the commotion.) the people who participate are committed...they camp in canvas tents, cook their food over a fire, have hardtack at the ready, wear their uniforms from dawn until dusk, and seemingly enjoy what they do a whole lot. the confederacy always seems to have more soldiers, which is interesting. last year the confederacy won the weekend skirmish, but the union won the battle we saw yesterday so hopefully they fare better this year overall! i'm going to let the photos speak for themselves on how the battles go down...
you all are welcome to join us next year for another fun-filled memorial day weekend adventure in feltonia!
