America’s Hometown Thanksgiving Celebration brought more than just family fun to Plymouth on Saturday.Town leaders tell NewsCenter 5 the parade provides an economic jolt to businesses near the parade route.”Every hotel room, all the restaurants downtown, and it’s not just the one day, the Saturday parade event, it starts its whole weekend,” said Plymouth Select Board Chair Richard Quintal. Quintal estimates the economic impact from the parade is somewhere in the millions.”If you would’ve asked me 20-something years ago, do I think it would’ve reached this level? I probably would’ve said, never would’ve imagined,” he said.Onlookers were not going to let Mother Nature “rain” on their parade.It’s one of the only historically accurate chronological parades in the country, visually bringing the country’s rich heritage to life by representing each century from the 17th through the 21st.From the arrival of the Mayflower to reenactments of the American Revolution on its 250th anniversary, it was a history lesson for everyone.“The pilgrims came over and they stopped over on the other side of the coast and then they came over here to do settlements… this is IT! That is America,” said one onlooker.“My heart is going crazy right now because I didn’t know about this parade,” said Mandi Taylor, who came all the way from Wyoming. “Today being here and looking how big it is and how beautiful the floats are and the horses… it’s incredibly impressive.”
America’s Hometown Thanksgiving Celebration brought more than just family fun to Plymouth on Saturday.
Town leaders tell NewsCenter 5 the parade provides an economic jolt to businesses near the parade route.
“Every hotel room, all the restaurants downtown, and it’s not just the one day, the Saturday parade event, it starts its whole weekend,” said Plymouth Select Board Chair Richard Quintal.
Quintal estimates the economic impact from the parade is somewhere in the millions.
“If you would’ve asked me 20-something years ago, do I think it would’ve reached this level? I probably would’ve said, never would’ve imagined,” he said.
Onlookers were not going to let Mother Nature “rain” on their parade.
It’s one of the only historically accurate chronological parades in the country, visually bringing the country’s rich heritage to life by representing each century from the 17th through the 21st.
From the arrival of the Mayflower to reenactments of the American Revolution on its 250th anniversary, it was a history lesson for everyone.
“The pilgrims came over and they stopped over on the other side of the coast and then they came over here to do settlements… this is IT! That is America,” said one onlooker.
“My heart is going crazy right now because I didn’t know about this parade,” said Mandi Taylor, who came all the way from Wyoming. “Today being here and looking how big it is and how beautiful the floats are and the horses… it’s incredibly impressive.”
