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Christmas Parade delights thousands

By Christine Anne Piesyk | December 2, 2007 |

Thousands of families lined the streets of downtown Clarksville Saturday for the annual Christmas Parade, which this year was staged at sunset and coincided with Downtown for the Holidays event of shopping and entertainment.

Santa, in his brilliant red suit with white fur trim, returned in his sleigh, and paused to listen to children’s wishes at Courthouse Square.

This year’s theme was the Sights and Sounds of Christmas. The Parade kicked off at 5 p.m. and included a host of city officials, civic, business, cultural and spiritual organizations, school bands, color guards, Clarksville’s mounted police and motorcycle units, regional fire departments and their decorated trucks, and a number of floats. The parade included several floats with Fort Campbell troops. The Roxy Theater contingent, celebrating 25 years of productions, appeared with a horse-drawn carriage and the costumed cast of the current production of Charles Dickens’ Victorian Christmas play, Chimes.

Downtown including Public Square and the Franklin Street district were ablaze with lights, stores beautifully decorated for the season and open for business through 8 p.m. Along the route, vendors sold such items as fried dough, soft drinks and hot chocolate. The Downtown Artists’ Co-operative was open for a reception with live music.

The talented Tuckasee Woodturners not only had a display of their work but were crafting small children’s toys on site.

The Eternal Flame (Pillar of Fire, Pillar of Clouds) was ablaze against the night sky after being off again earlier in the week.

Clarksville Online offers this random selection of images from the Saturday night Parade:

 Photos by Bill Larson

About Christine Anne Piesyk

With 40 years behind me (Huh? What? How did that happen?) as a journalist, feature writer, investigative reporter, editor, and film/theater/arts critic, I brought my liberal New England activism to Tennessee several years ago. having completed a midlife undergraduate degree in community organizing and women's studies, and an MA in Interdisciplinary Arts. I am currently an MFA student at Goddard College. I served on Future Search Commissions for two colleges and an issue-specific commission for the City of Northampton, MA, and did minor undergraduate work in studies in urban planning and community development. I am a community volunteer and a member of FreeThinkers for Peace and Civil Liberties. I am a certified storm spotter. In my spare time (define spare time please?) I am a voracious reader, obsessive movie buff, classical music junkie; I also and design and make sci-fi/fantasy and renaissance costumes. I have an unquenchable interest in just about everything. I see life as an ongoing opportunity for learning and adventure, with the best things still to come. All posts by Christine Anne Piesyk as presented on Clarksville Online are copyright ©2006, 2007 to the author.

Email: womanspeak@yahoo.com

Sections: Arts and Leisure, News
Topics: Christmas parade, Downtown for the Holidays, Sights and Sounds of Christmas

One Response to “Christmas Parade delights thousands”

1. Bill Larson Says:
   December 2nd, 2007 at 4:10 pm

   If you are pictured in a photograph here and would like a copy of the large resolution photo (if available) so you can get prints, send us a email indicating which picture, and we will be happy to send it to you.

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