Memorial Day Parade at Talcottville Church

On Sunday, what is perhaps Connecticut's shortest Memorial Day parade will step off from Talcottville Church, 10 Elm Hill Road in Vernon, and travel the short distance to Mount Hope Cemetery. The parade begins at 9 a.m. and includes vintage cars, fife and drum corps and anyone else who'd like to march. People join in and are part of the parade rather than stand along the sidelines and watch. The ceremony at the cemetery includes a recitation of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. (The parade forms up at 8:30 a.m. in the church parking lot.)