As you know we live in Inverness, Mississippi. It is a small delta town that can boast of some of the most wonderful, colorful and caring people anywhere on this earth. Most of the small delta towns use to be thriving communities centered around farming. However, now as you drive through some of these towns there is a sadness that can be felt since many of them are just a mere shadow of what they use to be. Inverness, on the other hand, has been able to keep some of its small town appeal and is a bedroom community for Indianola and the surrounding larger towns. We still have a bank, a private academy, public elementary and middle schools, town hall, police station, 2 grocery stores (I use that description lightly), three white churches and 4 black churches, one of the best restaurants for several miles around, and a card entry gas pump. Our community is fairly united when it comes to the black and white population. Our crime rate is nominal, pretty much the petty stuff of breaking into cars and business after hours. We have had a couple of armed robberies, the latest being this past week. For the most part, parents feel safe about their children riding their bikes around town.
I have given you this recitation as a preface to a town activity we attended today. We went to our local Christmas parade. Yep, we have an annual Christmas parade complete with a marching band, the obligatory fire truck with Santa, horses and riders, clowns, thrown candy, and even a gentleman singing Christmas carols through a karaoke machine strapped to the bed of a pick up truck. Oh, I forgot to mention the Gangster City Riders.
Mayor Weems heads up the parade
I have given you this recitation as a preface to a town activity we attended today. We went to our local Christmas parade. Yep, we have an annual Christmas parade complete with a marching band, the obligatory fire truck with Santa, horses and riders, clowns, thrown candy, and even a gentleman singing Christmas carols through a karaoke machine strapped to the bed of a pick up truck. Oh, I forgot to mention the Gangster City Riders.
Mayor Weems heads up the parade The CDA float
Clowns on a cart
Told you we had the Gangster City Riders
Inverness version of horses and riders
Sparky the fire dog
Santa's elves a.k.a. Smith Construction Company employees
The big man himself
The only thing that made this day even better was that William got to share in the "excitement." We rode to town in our red golf cart and found a prime spot to watch the parade.
Waiting for the parade to start
I almost forgot. This is Cecil, our karaoke singer.
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