“The circus would come to town and it would make a parade through town. They would bring all the animals through town and we’d all go to see. ” – Susan Balser

I remember when I was pretty young, like elementary school age, coming down here with my babysitter and watching the doll carriage parade, which was exciting for me as a very young girl. – Mairi Demings

Parsborro used to have big parades. I remember when I was a kid, there was a train coming in in from Springhill and that was hooked up with trains that would come from Halifax, Sydney, and Massachusetts. – William Wheaton

“At one point in time, we used to drive through the community, and Santa Claus used to be in the back of a dump truck.” – Cindy Lynch

“Christmas was wonderful there. It would almost be like, you know, if you scale Macy’s down to a little town under a hundred thousand people, then that was the place to go at Christmastime.” – Barbara Kliffer