Amusement rides at the Peach Festival
Brigham City's Peach Days organizers hold it is the second oldest ongoing harvest festival in the nation. The parade began with every fire truck (or so it seemed) in Box Elder County, each one blaring its siren, lots of kids riding on top. I hope they had ear plugs. The usual suspects, politicans tossing candy to the crowds, marching scouts, waving beauty queens, went by in turn. I wonder if it is normal in other places for people to walk the parade route handing out plastic bags to the kids so they can collect their candy. More candy than Halloween, and some of the vendors tossed t-shirts and ballcaps.
Peach Festival Queen's float
R and I left before sunrise and got to car show area before too many vehicles arrived. By the official starting time, there were dozens of Corvettes, a purple Avanti, bunches of restored pick-ups and even antique snowmobiles. It was so big, the organizers parked the cars in rows on the city ballfields, sorted by manufacturer and decade. R looked but couldn't find a '59 Chevy. I found an antique firetruck.
If I had realized there was a midway, I would have had a better plan to hang out in Brigham City all day. By the time I saw the parade, ate a dutch oven chicken dinner, visited with my friend Bill (of Bill Barnes Auto Art in Ogden) and photographed the Corvette he's restoring right now, it was almost sunset and time for some peach cobbler.
Orange and chrome classic
I wish they didn't park the cars so close together. Bill said that in other places, they put back the cars into a circle, so it's easy to pull one out and photograph it. For all the work put into the cars, they deserve to be admired.
