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LINK: Annual Westminster Memorial Day Parade Steeped in Tradition
Date: Friday, June 3, 2011, 6:47 AM EDT, 6:47 AM EDT from Steven R. Berryman
[FROM WestminsterPatch.com]
The annual Carroll Post 31 American Legion Westminster Memorial Day Parade steps off at 10 a.m. today. The parade will begin at the west end of town at Monroe Street and continue down Pennsylvania Avenue; it will go east on Main Street to Church Street, then to the Westminster Cemetery for the memorial service at 11 a.m.
The tradition of the parade and ceremony in Westminster began in 1868, when Mary Bostwick Shellman followed General John A. Logan’s May 5th, 1868 General Order No. 11 to adorn the graves of Union soldiers with flowers.
She gathered a group of schoolchildren for the task and they walked from an old schoolhouse on Center Street to Westminster Cemetery.
In 1868, the cemetery's focal point was the Union Meeting House of Westminster. Since the summer of 1891, the Memorial Day services have been held at a large urn, located on the knoll immediately in view as one enters the cemetery from Church Street.
As much as the urn has become one of the many visual icons of our community—such as the clock tower on the old fire hall on Main Street in Westminster, or the historic courthouse on Court Street—most folks are not aware of what the urn represents.
As the early settlers first came together as a community in 1764, one of the first focal points of our community was the Union Meeting House of Westminster.
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Annual Westminster Memorial Day Parade Steeped in Tradition
By Kevin Dayhoff[FROM WestminsterPatch.com]
The annual Carroll Post 31 American Legion Westminster Memorial Day Parade steps off at 10 a.m. today. The parade will begin at the west end of town at Monroe Street and continue down Pennsylvania Avenue; it will go east on Main Street to Church Street, then to the Westminster Cemetery for the memorial service at 11 a.m.
The tradition of the parade and ceremony in Westminster began in 1868, when Mary Bostwick Shellman followed General John A. Logan’s May 5th, 1868 General Order No. 11 to adorn the graves of Union soldiers with flowers.
She gathered a group of schoolchildren for the task and they walked from an old schoolhouse on Center Street to Westminster Cemetery.
In 1868, the cemetery's focal point was the Union Meeting House of Westminster. Since the summer of 1891, the Memorial Day services have been held at a large urn, located on the knoll immediately in view as one enters the cemetery from Church Street.
As much as the urn has become one of the many visual icons of our community—such as the clock tower on the old fire hall on Main Street in Westminster, or the historic courthouse on Court Street—most folks are not aware of what the urn represents.
As the early settlers first came together as a community in 1764, one of the first focal points of our community was the Union Meeting House of Westminster.
....for the rest, please click the Link!
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