45 Degrees North: Parade Protocols

45 Degrees North: Parade Protocols

Like many kids who grew up on farms, I remember decorating hay wagons with our 4-H club and riding those floats in parades that featured marching bands, convertibles, tractors, and politicians on foot. Those long-ago Hoosier parade organizers probably delighted in staging the politicians after the horses so they had to step lively over the “road apples”.  Now I live in rural northern Wisconsin near a village where the 4th of July parade is like …