Calling Parade Participants!

Thursday, March 31, 2011

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.

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Shutesbury's 250th Anniversary Song

Tune: Battle Hymn of the Republic
Words: Sabra MacLeod and Gale McClung

We started out as Roadtown back in seventeen thirty-five.
The Lancaster-to-River route was what we could provide.
The road was so successful that the town soon grew and thrived
And time kept marching on!

Chorus:
What a wonderful occasion
For a joyful celebration!
We are bursting with elation
As time goes marching on!

Twas seventeen-hundred sixty-one that Shutesbury was named
In the honor of a governor of undistinguished fame.
And then we were incorporated; now we all acclaim
That we have carried on!

Repeat chorus after each verse until final one.

Shutesbury is a rural town whose climate is supreme,
Whose air is always cooler and whose water's super-clean.
Renowned for forests, hills, and streams and atmosphere serene,
We'll all keep singing on!

Among the early industries were sawmills, boots, and shoes,
And Haskins' famous gold-tipped pens for everyone to use.
There of course was agriculture many felt the urge to choose,
And they've kept farming on.

Among the town's remembered names are Dihlmann, Wilde, and Spear,
And Norell, Locke, and Hunting who was clerk for fifty years.
With Haskell, Carey, Thayer, Pratt and Plaza it is clear,
For them we carry on.

Daniel Shays is known from far and wide. Rebellion was his game.
He felt the government unfair. Correction was his aim.
A local highway honored and immortalized his name.
For him we're marching on.

We residents appreciate our rural atmosphere.
With Quabbin and Wyola we have lots of water here,
For fishing, swimming, boating, all such gifts, so very near,
We'll just keep singing on!

For all our wild animals the town has been renowned.
Raccoons and foxes, deer, and owls have always been around.
Now bears and moose, coyotes, even bobcats can be found,
And we keep hiking on.

Our town library first began two hundred years ago.
With just one bookcase it was clear that it would have to grow.
And now it's so successful that its future makes us glow
As we go reading on.

The fire department came to be in nineteen fifty-one.
Because of faithful volunteers its service had begun.
And now the whole department's full of pride for all it's done,
And it will carry on.

We're grateful for our church that now is named "Community,"
And also for our local school. We're proud as we can be!
Our town hall's solar panels are a joy for us to see,
As we go greening on.

Final chorus:
Gathered here in celebration
For this wonderful occasion!
Let us shout in exultation
That we will carry on!

Shutesbury's 250th Anniversary Celebration - 2011

Thursday, March 31, 2011