Fincastle Virginia will have their annual Christmas parade on Saturday December 4th at 2pm. The line up is at 1pm at Breckenridge Elementary School. If you are running late to the lineup, you need to come in the back way from Springwood or the back road to the middle school or you will not be able to get to Breckenridge.
The Parade traditionally consists of lots of fire trucks, ambulances and church floats. There are also some cute kids groups that march or have floats, look for the Fincastle Preschool float...it will be the one with the parents completely surrounding it to the point that you can't really see the kids. It happens every year, kind of funny, guess we did it a couple of years ourselves, long ago.
The parade comes into town from the school turns on Main St. then turns onto Church St. From there it proceeds up to Academy St. and over to Roanoke St. where it heads back to main. Every year, when it heads back down main, it meets the tail end of the parade at Church St. The parade then stops until someone figures out it's stuck and walks backwards down the route telling all the participants to close ranks until the parade can continue. Not too sure why no one else seems to remember this year to year to attempt to fix the problem.
One other thing to watch for is every couple of years a new entry with a tractor trailer will fail to make the turn from Main to Church St. There is a strategically located telephone pole that has seen damages ranging from rubs to complete removal. A bonus to watching in that area is that you get to see the parade twice! The judges traditionally sit in front of the old Baptist Church, now a residence.
There are usually some folks selling hot chocolate and so forth along the parade route and this year Charades Nostalgia Grill is supposed to open for the parade.
Afterwards, Santa shows up at the school to take orders from the local children.
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