Linda Lou Walter Kepley: “During a late afternoon/early evening, your mother used to get us kids organized by taking shoe boxes and cutting windows out of them. She helped us cover the windows with colored cellophane. We would tie a string to the box, light a candle inside the box, and pull it along. With several of us doing this, we made a bright train of shoe boxes in the dark!!! Your mother was one cool lady, and we missed her terribly when she passed away.” (This was on West Second Street on the 1940’s)
Nick: My sister Liz fondly remembered these parades. I had her describe them to me many times. What fun for them. I was at my great-grand-nephews’ birthday party this weekend and Stacey, Liz’s daughter, had us decorate shoe boxes, put lights and a string on them and, just as it turned dark, we had a parade. We walked from her house on Fifth and Cherry and watched the Christmas parade from near the post office. We then resumed our own parade back home. I was so proud to get to join in an old family tradition.
Nick: My sister Liz fondly remembered these parades. I had her describe them to me many times. What fun for them. I was at my great-grand-nephews’ birthday party this weekend and Stacey, Liz’s daughter, had us decorate shoe boxes, put lights and a string on them and, just as it turned dark, we had a parade. We walked from her house on Fifth and Cherry and watched the Christmas parade from near the post office. We then resumed our own parade back home. I was so proud to get to join in an old family tradition.