Parade!

There's not much to the Gambier parade. A World War II leads the string of "floats," which include a convertible carrying the Citizen of the Year, a tractor, a clump of motorcycles, a school bus, the ambulance, a horse-drawn carriage (advertising a local pizza place), a gang of teenaged writing campers, another gang of mimes, (yes, mimes!) and all the neighborhood dogs. The people in the parade toss candy in the streets... and there's enough time for them to double back and collect candy from the streets.

Also, apparently, characters like this show up to... read poetry.