A Great Day for Parades

Shrek, SpongeBob, Snoopy soar through Manhattan
By Jane Yager,  Newser Staff
Posted Nov 26, 2009 2:17 PM CST
A Great Day for Parades
Snoopy floats through Times Square during Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.   (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)

Along with food and football, Thanksgiving brings a heaping serving of parades, from the Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade, the country's longest-running at 90, to the Macy's tradition in Manhattan, which today bypassed Broadway for the first time in its 83 years. Miss America Katie Stam shared the Statue of Liberty float in the Macy's parade with Meb Keflezighi, the first American in 11 years to win the New York City Marathon. (More Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade stories.)

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