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We all love a parade, right? Discover your perfect parade match with this FindYour-Douglas-County-Parade Flow Chart.
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AnimAl HumAn
A horse, of course.
Turtle
Horse? Turtle? Pet? Farm Animal?
Animal
Then you’ll be the star of the parade at Lawrence’s annual Old-Fashioned Christmas parade. Held each December and featuring riders, wagons and dozens and dozens of horses, it is the premier horse parade of the Midwest. www.lawrencechristmasparade.org
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Pet Make like a rabbit and win the annual Box Turtle race at the Vinland Fair in August. www.vinlandfair.blogspot.com
Farmin’ & I Love It
Human
From show pigs to well-dressed llamas, the annual Douglas County Fair is the place to strut your stuff if you’re a groomed and beautiful farm animal. www.dgcountyfair.com
Just checking, are you elvis?
Neither
I am. Are you lonesome tonight?
Marching Bands
No.
Then you must come to the Elvis Ends Polio charity run/walk. Held in June at Lawrence. www.elvisendspolio.org
play or watch?
ok, then what speaks to your soul?
Join wheeled spaceships, surfboard bicycles and other wacky things on wheels for Lawrence’s annual vroom-vroom mobile art parade held in early summer. www.arttougeau.org
Play
There’s always room in the band for one more player at the Lawrence Mardi Gras day parade. Nature
Listen to dozens of bands march through Lawrence for the annual KU Band Day parade. www2. ku.edu/~kumband/ band-day
National
Championship
Stars & Stripes It’s hometown hospitality at its best as nearly the entire town comes out for these parades: Eudora CPA held in late July (www.facebook.com/ EudoraCPA), Lecompton Territorial Days held in late June (www.facebook.com/ lecomptonterritorialdays), and Baldwin’s Maple Leaf Festival held in mid-October (www.mapleleaffestival.com).
Mother Nature’s top choice for you: Lawrence’s Earth Day parade https://lawrenceks.org/wrr/earthday
Hot rods. Rat rods. Muscle cars. Oh, yeah! Lawrence’s annual Rev It Up Hot Rod Hullaballo held in September. www.revitupcarshow.com
Zombie
Beauty (with speed)
Beauty on Wheels
Get jolly with your own kind, boss elf! It’s Lawrence’s annual parade/pub crawl for St. Nick. www.santaconlawrence.com
Santa Claus
2013/2014
Speed (with beauty)
Leprechaun
It doesn’t happen every year, but it might. When KU’s men’s basketball team advances in the NCAA tournament, thousands of fans parade through the streets of Lawrence. Raucous but civil.
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Zombies of all ages shuffle through Lawrence each October. www.lawrencezombiewalk.blogspot.com
Watch
Community
Low-key but elegant. Children wave flags and parade under a canopy of trees in the Old West Lawrence Fourth of July Parade.
Of course you are, my wee magical one. And Lawrence has the big St. Pat’s party parade just for you. www.lawrencestpatricksdayparade.com
Dogs lead off the parade at Lawrence Humane Society’s annual Mutt ’n’ Strut each summer. www.lawrencehumane.org If you’re a cat, let’s be honest— you’d rather stay home and nobody is going to get you to march in line—but there is an annual parade of feline beauties at the annual ACFA cat show held at the Douglas County Fairgrounds each summer. www.acfacat.com
Photographs: Jason Dailey for Sunflower Publishing, Shutterstock and Kevin Anderson, Richard Gwin, Nick Krug and Mike Yoder for Lawrence Journal-World.
Publication: Sunflower Publishing By: Jenni Leiste
Douglas County Newcomers Guide
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Douglas County Newcomers Guide 2013/2014
Publication: Oklahoma Today By: Steven Walker
The sporT ThaT preceded s T a T e h o o d s Ti ll rides s T r o ng in o k la h o m a . By Holly ClANAHAN HeNdrix | Photography by reBekAH WorkmAN illustrations by SteveN WAlker
CIRCUIT CITIES Rodeo is as Oklahoma as red-dirt dust rising from a hot arena floor. Above, participants warm up their horses at the 2012 Ram Prairie Circuit Finals Rodeo in Duncan.
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