Annual Brooklin Independence Day Celebration

The weather was perfect, the time was over-ripe, and it looked like everyone had a great time at the Annual Brooklin Independence Day Celebration, held yesterday. The contrast between last year’s plague-dictated cold and rainy whizz-by of a couple of trucks and a few cars was stark.

As usual. the day began with the Brooklin Town Band on the Library lawn warming up the crowd with a wide variety of music, from John Philip Sousa marches to Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

The parade started at about 10 a.m., led by some of our veterans carrying Old Glory and an Missing in Action Flag. Following that were modern and historic fire engines from Brooklin and the area.

There were two significant floats created by our neighbors. The first was a space-oriented presentation, complete with a black hole and a kidnapping alien. The other, titled BEe HAPPY celebrated bee keeping. Interspersed in the Parade were individual creations.

As usual, antique and classic cars ere featured and drew quite a bit of attention during the parade and when displayed in the Town Green afterward.

After the parade, the celebration continued at the Town Green. The usual children’s games — The Dead Chicken Toss, Golf Putting, and Wet Sponge Throw — were popular, as always.

And, finally, the usual delicious lunch of barbequed chicken or hot dogs, corn on the cob, cole slaw, and potato salad, with cold watermelon or ice cream as a desert

(Brooklin, Maine)