The 250th Anniversary Celebration parade will step off from the covered bridge Sunday, June 18, at 1 p.m. and finish in the center of town.
Marching in the parade will be “our very own Frontier Regional High School marching band and others,” said Organizer Heidi Flanders, noting that so far there are “about 50 entries so far and growing.”
Those “others” include the Philadelphia Mummers, a Ferko String Band division; Shriners clowns; horse drawn wagons a color guard; Conway’s oldest fire engine, a hand pumper, and the town’s brand new pumper truck.
When evening sunlight fades Friday evening, June 16, fireworks will light up the night sky above the town’s center in celebration of the town’s 250th anniversary.
Flanders said fireworks are scheduled to begin at about 9:30 p.m., capping the Friday, June 16, events. As for parking, she noted, “we have parking through out town and shuttles running from all locations continually through out the weekend.”
Anniversary celebration events continue Saturday, June 17, in the morning with a Teamsters Challenge starting at 9:30 in a field across from the Conway Grammar School.
To complete the challenge, a driver must navigate a team of either horses or oxen through a “very tight obstacle course.”
“This is not a horse pull, it’s a challenge between the driver and his team. There will be three or four teams of horses and the same amount of oxen,” said event organizer Malcolm J. Corse, noting the event will last till about 3 p.m.
Corse noted, “if you have never driven a team of horses or oxen, it is very challenging.”
Join local historians for a beautiful two-mile educational walk through the old Cricket Hill settlement and along the 1766 town highway to Ashfield during the town’s 250th Anniversary Celebration.
The tour leaves from the Conway State Forest entrance at the top of Cricket Hill Road on Sunday, June 18, at 9.30 a.m. Shuttle rides leave from the town’s center to the trail head beginning at 9 a.m.
The history of the people and landscape of Cricket Hill will come alive as stops are made at old foundations, the last town poor farm, an old family cemetery, and 18th and 19th century road intersections.
Those who aren’t able to walk for the distance can ride along in a horse-drawn wagon, space permitting. The event, co-sponsored by the Hilltown Land Trust, is free.