A socially-distanced Fourth of July parade will take place in Aquinnah on Independence Day.
The Edgartown Fourth of July parade may look a lot different than when it started out in 1844, but 180 years later the sentiment remains the same.
This year’s parade begins at 5 p.m. on July 4. Marchers old and new, along with their floats, will line up in the Edgartown School parking lot earlier on Thursday, and when the bell tower strikes five, they will all proceed down a well-worn path.
The state fire marshal’s office suspended the man who managed the Edgartown town fireworks display on July 4 after several undetonated fireworks washed up on Chappaquiddick.
Twenty-five commercial grade fireworks were found on Chappaquiddick after the town’s Fourth of July fireworks display on Tuesday.
They came by cars and on floats, others on oxen and some on foot, such as the Colonial Navy of Massachusetts Fife and Drum Corps, to celebrate the Fourth of July at the annual Edgartown parade.
Aquinnah and Oak Bluffs celebrated the Fourth in singular style, with small town parades this morning at the most western edge of the Island and in the Methodist Camp Ground.
