{"id":33989,"date":"2019-09-02T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparselysageandtimely.com\/blog\/?p=33989"},"modified":"2023-12-20T22:15:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T06:15:28","slug":"tomales-founders-day-festival-and-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/?p=33989","title":{"rendered":"Tomales Founders’ Day parade small but helps draw a crowd to festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

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Tomales celebrated its annual Founders Day Sunday<\/strong> with a parade up the main street (Highway 1) and a festival in the town park. For the second year in a row the number of parade entries was down, but the crowd was still enthusiastic.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Tomales Volunteer Fire Department was one of several fire departments represented in the parade.<\/p>\r\n

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The Hubbub Club from Graton, Sonoma County.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Wild Blue Farm is an organic-vegetable farm in Tomales. Cute pup.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Tomales rancher Al Poncia drove a three-wheeled motorcycle that pulled a trailer carrying barrels marked “Papa’s Grappa.” Another cute pup.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Walter Earle, former co-owner with his wife Margaret Graham of Mostly Natives nursery, rides as Grand Marshal, the sign noting “In Memory of Margaret Graham,” who died in 2018 in a Colorado car accident.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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E Clampus Vitus, a fraternal organization dedicated to the study and preservation of Western heritage, has twice posted historic markers in Tomales. Loren Wilson (the driver), who once lived on the Cerini Ranch just north of Tomales near Fallon, is an ex ‘Sublime Noble Grand Humbug’ all the Clampers, as well as a past Noble Grand Humbug of Sam Brannan Chapter 1004.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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The festival in the town park included dozens of booths selling jewelry, arts and crafts, food and drink.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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The Pulsators from Petaluma performed in the park’s bandstand during the festival.<\/p>\r\n

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The sun shone on Sunday’s small-town festivities as a happy crowd picnicked and strolled about.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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A couple of John Roche’s goats, part of his grazing service, showed up under an antique buckboard. John is an Inverness Volunteer Fire Department captain. He and Athena Osborn are looking for a house in West Marin for rent or as a care-taking work-trade. The couple and their baby have been running an ad in The Point Reyes Light<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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