The Upper Cumberland will be busy this Fourth of July Monday with celebrations in Crossville, Livingston, and McMinnville, culminating with Cookeville’s Red White and Boom.
A celebration of young people leads off the day with the annual kids parade around the courthouse square. Registration begins Monday morning at 9:15am in the parking lot of Hooper Huddleston and Horner Funeral Home on Washington Avenue.
Prizes will be awarded in several age groups for most patriotic costume and other categories. Kids often decorate wagons, bicycles and scooters in patriotic themes. The prize announcement will be made during the Independence Day Ceremony.
The parade begins at 10am with kids marching south on Jefferson Avenue from Hooper Huddleston, by the courthouse, to the corner of Spring Street. The parade will turn left on Spring Street and then left, going north on Washington Avenue. The parade will end at the corner of Broad and Washington.
Families can watch from the Jefferson, Spring and Washington sides of the courthouse. At the conclusion of the parade, families can come back to the new Veterans Plaza as Mayor Randy Porter hosts the annual Independence Day Ceremony on the steps of the County Courthouse. The program begins at 10:30am.
The parade and ceremony will be broadcast on News Talk 94.1/AM 1600 and Lite Rock 95.9.
