WCCP's Children's Parade & Entertainment - FUN!
The Children's Program has been part of the Machias Wild Blueberry Festival since both entities were created in the mid-1970s. On the Friday night of the Festival, hundreds of children and parents line up on Broadway in Machias for the Children's Parade. WCCP hands out dozens of bright blue balloons and the parade sets off through town at 6 p.m.
When the parade ends, the participants and public join at the Performing Arts Center (PAC) at UMM for free live entertainment sponsored by WCCP. This year's entertainment was the Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers with their original play, The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.
Thank you to the following for making our event a huge community success: Deb Eckart, Mike Carter, David Whitney, Whitney's Toolshed, Jill Hayward, Naida Pennell, Machias Police Department, Machias Town Office, Alice Porter, Wayne Wood, Logan Wood, Bobby Cale, Cindy Rossi, Ciara Schoppee, Blair Hudson, Machias Valley Baptist Church, Centre Street Congregational Church, Nicole Ball, Ellen Farnsworth, Janet Weston, University of Maine at Machias, and the Washington County Children's Program Board and Staff members! View news article on Janet Weston, WCCP's Grand Marshal of the Blueberry Festival Children's Parade on our News & Events page.
We're already looking forward to 2010 - the Parade & Entertainment will be on Friday night, August 20!
In the meantime, enjoy these photos from this year and previous years. (Click small images to view larger photo.)















