PLANS CONTINUING FOR FOURTH OF JULY ACTIVITIES IN ROUND TOP
Plans for Round Top’s 170th annual Fourth of July celebration and parade are underway, albeit with possible limitations due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Round Top councilmembers at a teleconference meeting last week opted to keep plans moving for the Fourth of July festivities, along with the town’s sesquicentennial birthday event on August 1st.
Event organizers say the parade will not be cancelled, but it will be limited. Ideas being considered are restricting parade entries to 50 or under, keeping spectators in their vehicles parked along the parade route, and disallowing thrown items.
Organizers say the celebration in Round Top started in 1851 and has continuously been celebrated, even through the Civil War, making it the oldest continuous Fourth of July celebration west of the Mississippi River.