Welcome to Harper

A couple of weekends ago Harper celebrated its 150 year birthday, its Sesquicentennial Celebration. I set up booth there for hat selling, but mostly to introduce myself and let People know that I am setting up shop in Harper in about a year. The funniest response to that was, "Why?" or "Why Harper".  So I would explain my situation and my Dad's gunshop and that I do a lot of my selling at shows and on the internet anyway.
A nice thing that happened was that I had a few oldtimers tell me how great my Dad was and how they miss him, how many guns they bought from him etc. I knew he was a well respected man about Harper, but it was nice to hear anyway.
The best part was when i told people about my plan to host saturday Tea parties, it generated a lot of excitement, people were genuinely interested.
So meanwhile back at the celebration in the park: There was a parade and people dressed up in costumes and good barbeque, and old friends.  Here are a few pix of the parade and the doins' at the park: