Daily News | Good weather and easing pandemic fears bring out crowd for Croydon’s Memorial Day parade
The Harry S Truman High School marching band drum-thumped, hundreds of little American flags fluttered, and the Kensington String Band strummed on a mile-plus Memorial Day parade route in Croydon, Bucks County.
Croydon residents don’t know how long they’ve had the parade on State Road. But they agree that it’s a very long time — since, some said, State Road was a dirt road. The parade begins at State and Cedar Avenue and shoots to Bellevue Avenue and the Joseph A. Schumacher VFW Post 1597, whose members and auxiliary organize it. The Croydon VFW calls itself the “oldest post in Bucks County,” chartered in 1928.
In Croydon, the parade also is a celebration of the tight-knit community near the Delaware River in an industrial part of Bristol Township.
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