Rutland is the place to be for Halloween! Location of the best and the second biggest Halloween parades in the country. There is a huge story behind it and you will here about further below.
This is the 50th anniversary too!
We waited patiently in the rain for the parade to start. Even Lola enjoys the parade( sort of). Not sure what Lexie is doing.
This would be Lola's downfall for the night. As the dancing skeletons passed Lola panicked and slipped her collar and went on a blind run. I chased Lola the length of the Walmart/Price Chopper parking lot before catching her near the movie theater. Never run so hard in my life.
The floats were themed throughout the decades of the parades existance. Here's a float representing the 50's
Nothing to be said here, just my alter-ego!!!!!
Superman swoops by along Merchants Row. Very little work for him here with RCPD on the job!
Another 50's theme
The BOO mobile from Pittsford Fire Dept. Our good freind Terry Kieth drives this every year for the haunted house.
Celebrating 50 years
One of the 50 Candles accompanying the float. Can you guess who this is. Thats right Officer Steve Schutt of the Rutland City Police Department.
Scary, Scary! not really just the jack-o-lantern signifying the end of the parade.
City Police new DUI van. Great graphics.
The following day we Stopped by the Chaffee Art Center to see the Halloween exhibit featuring Tom Fagan the founder of the parade.
We also got to see some local artist works hanging in another exhibit.
Here is the Man, Tom Fagan. Fagan was great friends with many artists and writers for the large comic insutry particularly DC and Marvel Comics. Many of the artists partied with Fagan in Rutland. The Rutland Parade has been featured in comics from both companies including the Avengers, Batman, Justice League and Thor. Considered the first crossover, a stolen car of an comic artist was written into the plot of a DC and Marvel comic by the writers and unknown by the bosses . The writers were warned not to do such things again.
Reproductions of the comic covers featuring our parade done by a local artist.
These remind me of my years as an active superhero. Now that I'm older my alter-ego activities have waned.
Cait and Meghan posing next to the Beast. In this episode the Beast( think pre X-Men) is picked up hitch hiking by some comic writers and brought to Rutland prior to the parade.
Cait does her best Wonder Woman pose. Maybe superpowers run in the family?
Nothing like a stroll thru the graveyard.
Batman guards the Chaffee Center. Unfortunately sometime during the night he was attacked by vandals. Where is a superhero when you need one?
What can I say, a SUPER Family!!!!!!!!
