Prize Winner in Old Home Week Parade 1908
Posted on December 21, 2003 by Jack DeVeuve
The Second Prize winner in the Horrible and Trades Parade, Old Home Week at the Head of Westport, August 23-28, 1908, was awarded to Frank Macomber driving a pair of bay horses attached to his wood saw wagon; and Charles Reckards, the village blacksmith, whose blacksmith shop including bellows, anvil, hammers, and a forge was set up in the wagon with the saw. Macomber and Reckards shared second prize — $4.00.