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.
Fourth of July Parade
2024
2022
July 4, 2022
The Edgartown Fourth of July parade roared back Monday after a two-year hiatus, with Island institutions turning out in the historic Vineyard tradition.
June 28, 2022
The Edgartown Fourth of July parade and fireworks show are back after a two-year pause. The select board unanimously approved the annual rite of summer at its meeting Monday.
2020
July 5, 2020
At precisely 5 p.m., World War II veterans Herb Foster, 92, and Bob Falkenberg, 93, set out on a Fourth of July procession through the streets of downtown Edgartown.
2005
July 4, 2005
Molly Headly, age six, spun in circles waving her American flag while the Colonial Navy band marched by on Main street. The red, white and blue pompoms on her headband jumped back and forth as the little girl danced to her own rhythm. She didn't care much for the candy being thrown from the cars and floats as they passed by - she wanted more music.
"Will they play more?" she asked her mother, Sarah Headly, after the band had passed by. Molly was just one of hundreds of children and adults lining the streets of Edgartown during the annual Fourth of July parade yesterday afternoon.
June 30, 2005
A family walks along Memorial Wharf eating ice cream, the children wearing Martha's Vineyard sweatshirts, one red, one white and two blue. A stranger stops to help an elderly woman attempting to hang the stars and stripes from her flagpole. Down the street a man, surrounded by three children drawing vivid landscapes in sidewalk chalk, cleans the grime from his grill.
The Fourth of July is almost here and in every storefront, hanging flower basket and living room window Independence Day is visible.
