Shriners Parade

Back in May of this year in Newcastle, I was witness to a very interesting parade. The Shriners organization is pretty strong in this part of Wyoming and they had a parade. I don't know if it was specifically to initate new members or what. One person watching the parade told me that it was an initiation. The initiates were dressed in various flavors of bathrobes as you can see in the picture. They were assigned the task of horse poop collection.

It was fasinating watching these old men, for the most part, play with different things. There were turtle cars, and small truck go carts, and model A go carts, and horses, and floats, and snowmobiles, and there was even a band that rode a float playing some tunes that I didn't recognize.

The Shriners have several hospitals around the country where they give free care to children. This, I think is a very noble cause to have fun and donate time and money for. As far as I understand this good orginazation. Have fun looking at the pictures.