Fairs and Parades

Mountain Park, July 1968. Photograph from the Daily Hampshire Gazette Collection at Forbes Library.

Miss Montague "What a Catch!" float in Tercentenary Parade. Photographer unknown.

From Special Collections: The WAVES on parade in Florence, May 30, 1943. Photograph by Walter E. Corbin. This photograph shows prospective officers in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service Officer Training Center at Smith College marching in the Florence Memorial Day parade. The Navy trained officers at Smith from August 1942 through December 1944. On the right in the back of the photograph, just behind the row of young bikers, you can see the original smaller barrel-roof form of the Miss Florence Diner, which had been opened only two years before by Maurice Alexander.#flashbackfriday

From Special Collections: Dickinson Hospital nurses and Red Cross contingent in Northampton's Armistice Day Parade, Nov. 12, 1918. #throwbackthursday

The Cummington Fair on Aug 25 1962 from Forbes Library Special Collections

Two kids on board "Puffing Billy", Gazette Day at Mountain Park 1966.

Gazette Day at Mountain Park 1966


First Night 1988