As
the members of the Millbrook Revelers are proud to proclaim, The Millbrook
Mardi Gras Parade is the largest parade north of Mobile. That was proven
again on Saturday 23 February as Camp 1524 let the Good Times Roll with a booth
at the festival and a fine entry in the parade. We gave away Hundreds of mini
Battle Flags, SCV coins, and a mountain of candy were given away during the parade as thousands lined Main Street in Millbrook. More mini-Battle flags and posters were handed out at the camp's booth at the festival at Millbrook's Village Green Park and many flags, bandanas, tags, totes and other camp stores were sold to booth visitors making it a very successful day. We were very
well received by parade spectators and visitors to our booth. We heard many
compliments including, “We appreciate what y’all are doing” and “ I have got to
have a flag!” It was definitely an upbeat occasion.
The
Revelers who host the Millbrook Mardi Gras have always welcomed the Dragoons as participants and this day was no exception. Thanks go out to the event organizers for their hospitality and our
compliments to them for such excellent organization of a large festive happening.
In
the photos below are Dragoons Karl Wade, Bill Myrick and Stuart Waldo who all set up the booth early on Saturday morning. Karl Wade, Dale Boyles and Douglas Beir
Butler helped man the booth pretty much all day while other Dragoons stopped by to help. Members of the Alabama Division Mechanized Cavalry 1-D again participated with the Dragoons and one photo shows members arriving at the parade line up area on their motorcycles. The Mech Cav members were
Dragoon Don Owens, Brian Anderson, Lt. Michael Adkins and Corporal Tim Hobbs.
The Dragoon entry included Larry Miller's red truck which had the Dragoons' new Mardi Gras banner affixed across the front, the Mardi Gras purple Charger of Commander Waldo with the SCV logo on the front tag and small Confederate flags flying off the passenger windows as well as a number of men who walked the parade route. Additional parade participants with the Dragoons shown in the group photo included 1st Lt. Commander
Harold Grooms, John Dennis and his grandson Sean, Conner Lee and his brother Nick, Larry Spears, Bill
Myrick, and Wayne Sutherland (as well as the Mechanized Cavalry riders previously mentioned).
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