I was in the very first Buckboard Days Parade in 1970. I was 12 years old. My parents, Bill and Marion Sanborn were the coaches for the “Redhots”, a girls softball team. I was the mascot. The team was in that first parade and as the mascot, so was I. Then, many years later, my children were in the parade with the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. My daughter also marched with a baton school. Their names are Jill and Jacob Tumulty. They went to Blandford Elementary at the time. My name back in the 70’s was Lori Sanborn. I always looked forward to going to that parade every year. I always had fun and thoroughly enjoyed every parade.
~ Lori Tumulty