We checked out Hawley’s Memorial Day parade yesterday. It was a classic small town affair. It opened with military honor guard and some of the local reserves then the high School band, the queens from the county fair, and lots of candy throwing courtesy local proprietors. The local candy store had an old fashioned big wheeled bike in the parade. (They had pretty fair jelly candies in their store too.) The politicians were very low key, just waving while riding together in the same car, non-party affiliated. Then there were fire engines, lots of them but no sirens or horn blowing; that was a little odd. There was a really cool forest fire fighting truck. All four wheels steered. It could drive down the road side-ways or more practically, maneuver through thick stands of trees that they have around here. It looked like it would be fun to drive.