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Patriot Guard Riders and members of Rolling Thunder Chapter 6 led the parade on their motorcycles.
Elisa Dragotto/Herald photos
Theodore Roosevelt greeted passersby as he walked through the parade, accompanied by Samantha Goetz, Joseph Saladino, the town supervisor, and Richard LaMarca, the town clerk.
Parade-goers got the chance to enjoy the parade from the comfort of the hamlet’s benches and foldout chairs.
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Stephen Walker, standing, and the Oyster Bay Community Band played patriotic ditties throughout the parade.
Elisa Dragotto/Herald photos
Educators and volunteers from Raynham Hall Museum were dressed in Revolutionary period apparel.
Elisa Dragotto/Herald photos
Oyster Bay’s patriotic spirit was on display at the annual Fourth of July Parade and Celebration in the heart of the historic hamlet. Organized by the AMVETS North Shore Veterans Memorial Post #21, hundreds of residents and visitors gathered in Oyster Bay for a star-spangled celebration of America’s independence from Britain.
Local politicians were joined by the greatest of all Oyster Bay’s political figures, Theodore Roosevelt, who gave his traditional Independence Day speech on the bandstand in the heart of the hamlet. Members of several local historical and veterans’ organizations proudly marched through Oyster Bay to the sounds of fifes, drums and other Revolutionary-era instruments.
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