Episode 118: Every business on Main Street closes on August 11 and somebody has always needed a ride out of town that day and I thought I just had good friends
Submitted by Kit — Traer, Iowa. 51. There's a parade float in the Tolliver barn, out on 180th Street south of town, and everybody in Traer, Iowa knows that. I knew it. I rode on it. The last Old Settlers parade was in August of 1981, and I was six, and I was Little Miss Old Settlers, which meant a ride down Main Street on a hay wagon covered in chicken wire and tissue paper. If you grew up in the Midwest you know how that's done. You fold a square of tissue, you twist it, you poke it into a hole in the wire, and you do that thirty thousand times. After that year the Legion said the parade…
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