Every Labor Day, Kathy Seabrook and Michael Furgueson host brunch on their front porch along Main Street in Mendham for family and friends who gather to watch the borough’s annual parade. This year’s guests came from as away as Indiana and included many parishioners from St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Morristown, which the couple attends. One of the guests, a junior correspondent for MorristownGreen.com, provided this report.
By Carl Hausman, MG Kids correspondent
On Labor Day, I went to something quite fascinating: a parade!
It was the Labor Day parade, as I’m pretty sure you can guess. It was in the town of Mendham. We were at a friend’s house and there were bagels, mouse cupcakes, etc., to eat.
And then the parade started. There were fire trucks, the mayor, bands – just about everything you could think of to be in a Labor Day parade.
It was lots of fun, but the most fun part was swinging a little afterward while I buried my nose in a new Dungeons and Dragons book. However, nothing can really beat Tootsie Rolls bigger than your thumb that came out of enormous baskets preceding bands playing some of your favorite songs. (A lot of the candy they threw out to the crowd mysteriously disappeared into my pockets. Even more vanished when I turned into one of the scavengers picking up afterwards.)
And so that was what the Labor Day parade was like for me.
Carl Hausman, 11, attends St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Morristown.
