Saturday, August 27, had temperatures in the 80’s with sunny skies for the Albia Restoration Days parade. (The monies collected during this festival help to renovate the buildings and artifacts in Albia.) It had the usual elements of an Iowa parade, which are clowns, fire trucks, bands, horses, floats, and tractors. The unusual element was the man who carried hundreds of “pop” cans on his motorcycle. These cans are valuable since you pay a fee of 5 cents a can when you purchase soda pop, which can be redeemed when you turn in the empty cans.
If you look beyond the parade in several of the photos, you see a Civil War statute, which reads “erected to the memory of our fallen heroes 1861-1865.”The flags are the US flag and the Iowa flag.
After the parade, I wandered around the square. There were food concessions, a band played in the bandstand and various artists displayed their art. I purchased the watercolor of red tulips from Ken Smith who painted it when he was 89 years old before I went to a display of quilts in the Methodist Church Family Life Center. Then I went to the “Follies” which I will write about in my next blog.
If you look beyond the parade in several of the photos, you see a Civil War statute, which reads “erected to the memory of our fallen heroes 1861-1865.”The flags are the US flag and the Iowa flag.
After the parade, I wandered around the square. There were food concessions, a band played in the bandstand and various artists displayed their art. I purchased the watercolor of red tulips from Ken Smith who painted it when he was 89 years old before I went to a display of quilts in the Methodist Church Family Life Center. Then I went to the “Follies” which I will write about in my next blog.
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