Calling Parade Participants!

We are still actively seeking parade participants for the Big Parade on June 11th
(rain date: June 12).

The route will be from the Shutesbury Elementary School to Town Hall (about one mile)
from 3 - 5 PM.

All entries are welcome:

Animals

Bicycles

Walkers

Decorated Cars & Trucks

Floats

Flat Beds with dancers, actors, musicians, exhibitions, fashion or art work

Movable Art

Banners for local groups, businesses, or organizations

Etc., Etc., Etc.! If it moves and you're connected to Shutesbury somehow, you're in!!



Followed by BBQ and band at the Shutesbury Athletic Club

Please contact Dagen Julty, Parade Coordinator, at 259-1808 or dagenjulty@yahoo.com
for free registration and/or more information.

Enjoy a New England “time travel dinner” March 18!

Main dishes, breads and desserts from 18th through 21st century New England will be on the menu at a fundraising dinner for the People of the Past, the 250th anniversary historical reenactment group.

The buffet, 6:00-8:00pm at the Shutesbury Athletic Club, 282 Wendell Rd., will feature vegetarian and non-vegetarian fare: baked beans, brown bread, succotash, beef stew, soda bread, a 1950s tuna noodle casserole, and a tomato, lentil and kale stew from Shutesbury chef Leslie Cerier’s Gluten-Free Recipes for the Conscious Cook. Dessert includes Indian pudding, apple crisp and a delectable assortment of cakes from Colonial days.

Suggested donation for the dinner is $5 per person.

Members of People of the Past will be happy to answer questions about the role YOU could play in costume in one or more events in 2011. How about reprexenting a revolutionary soldier? The proprietor of a hotel beside healing mineral springs? A hard-working farmer and homemaker of the 1800s? Neighbors gathered in a Shutesbury inn to make palm-leaf hats or chat about "current" events? There are many possibilities for speaking AND non-speaking parts -- and roles for children, too!

On Friday evening, children attending will also have an opportunity at the dinner to create their own links for the 250th Anniversary Steering Committee's growing 250-link paper chain, to be p;roudly carried in the June 11 parade and displayed around town at other times.

Following the dinner, the Shutesbury Athletic Club will present Uncle Hal’s Crabgrass Band in the front room.  Hal Bosco, 63, of Greenfield, will pay a rare 1970 Martin acoustic guitar of which only 200 were made. Jim Bonham, 60, of Buckland, will play a stand-up bass built in the late 1940s. John Kunhardt, 52, of Belchertown, will play a vintage 1957 Gibson A-style mandolin.

We hope to see you there!

Janis S. Gray, for the People of the Past