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WE LOVE A PARADE

The Outer Cape Celebrates the Fourth With 3 Parades

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Pedalers, drummers, protesters, jugglers, drag queens, flag wavers, and pirates celebrated their freedoms at three different Outer Cape parades this week.

In Eastham, Sheila and Ralph Holcomb, in collaboration with the police and fire depts., organized a kids’ bike parade in the Luthers Lane neighborhood on Monday.

Wellfleet’s parade on the Fourth featured retiring elementary school Principal Mary Beth Rodman as the grand marshal, along with samba dancers, unicyclists, pirates, and, of course, Paul Suggs and his squirting clam.

In Provincetown, this year’s parade, in the rain, had fifes, drums, Varla Jean Merman, and a Black Lives Matter protest led by Racial Justice Provincetown.

A good time was had by all.

Eastham, July 3

The Luthers Lane neighborhood gathers on July 3 to celebrate the Fourth. (Photo by Elias Duncan)
Coralie Fry, 9, in front followed by Gabe Fry, 8, (left) and Christopher Peters, 10, riding their bikes alongside the Eastham police during the Luthers Lane bike parade. (Photo by Elias Duncan)
Collin Gerish, 13, waits patiently at the front of the scrum at the ice cream truck at the third annual Luthers Lane bike parade in Eastham. (Photo by Elias Duncan)
Biovanni Michael, 4, in the bike parade. (Photo by Elias Duncan)
Nicki Waite serves ice cream to children after the bike parade. (Photo by Elias Duncan)
Sheila and Ralph Holcomb, left, are the organizer of the Luthers Lane bike parade, which celebrated Independence Day on July 3 this year. With them are family members, from left, Lori and Ryne McClaren, Amanda Neidhardt, and Alyson Iarrusso. (Photo by Elias Duncan)
A length of the day’s spangled banners land on the grass as the festivities come to a close. (Photo by Elias Duncan)

Wellfleet, July 4

Paul Suggs carries on a Wellfleet tradition at the town’s Fourth of July parade. (Photo by Marnie Crawford Samuelson)
Payomet circus performers join the parade in Wellfleet. (Photo by Marnie Crawford Samuelson)
Eno Yin, 7, from Brooklyn, N.Y., right, and friend, spirits dampened a little, perhaps, by the rain, as the Wellfleet parade goes by. (Photo by Marnie Crawford Samuelson)
James Weber, from Great Barrington, leader of Berkshire Bateria, leads a samba down Main Street in support of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust’s effort to preserve the Marcel Breuer house. (Photo by Marnie Crawford Samuelson)
Kai Potter and other pirates once again appear in town on Independence Day. (Photo by Marnie Crawford Samuelson)
Kevin McCaffery drives his 1969 Ford Galaxy with Krystal DeSilva riding shotgun. They’re ferrying the Grand Marshal of Wellfleet’s parade this year, Mary Beth Rodman, left, who recently retired as the elementary school principal. Throwing candy is Amy McCaffery and walking alongside are Donna McCaffery with her seven-month-old granddaughter, Adele. (Photo by Marnie Crawford Samuelson)
Cousins Charlie Keever, left, from West Hartford, Conn. and Zack DeLong from Derry, N.H. with a dog named Honey. (Photo by Marnie Crawford Samuelson)
Priscilla Jenkins and family wait for the antique cars to go by along Holbrook Avenue. (Photo by Marnie Crawford Samuelson)

Provincetown, July 4

Mareck Riley, 6, from Middletown, Conn. drums to his own beat in the Provincetown Fourth of July parade. (Photo by Elias Duncan)
Harry Minassian directs traffic in the rain after the parade. (Photo by Elias Duncan)
Ryan Nelson from Houston, Texas watches, ready for rain or shine, as a fife and drum corps marches by. (Photo by Elias Duncan)
Amy Raff, director of the Provincetown library, rides through the parade on the library’s book bike. (Photo by Elias Duncan)
Kelcie Axiom, Taylor Southland, and their son, Tiger, 4, in town from Monson, watch the parade from a covered stoop. (Photo by Elias Duncan)
Drag performer Varla Jean Merman waves to spectators. (Photo by Elias Duncan)
Racial Justice Provincetown marches. Leading the way carrying the Black Lives Matter banner and signs are, from left, Courtney Paulsen-Martin, Maureen Travis Burgundy, Jerome Tenpenny Jr., Pat Kearns, and Carol Bergen. (Photo by Elias Duncan)
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