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November 8 - Parade
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Directions to Parade Nov 8, 2009
From Phila:
**Take I-95 North to exit for Oxford Vally Rd.(Mall and Sesame Place)
Left turn onto Oxford Valley Rd. North
Stay straight for approximately 2 1/2 miles(passing 5 traffic lights)
Road name changes to Heacock Rd.after the 4th light.
Cross over stoney Hill Rd. at the 5th light.(Yardley Makefield Fire Co. on the right)
Left turn at the next light< Edgewood Rd. (Masonic Home on the left). Park at Masonic Home.
From New Jersey:
Over the Burlington Bristol Bridge take Rt # 413 to entrance to I-95.
Stay to the right and take I-95 North to Trenton.
Follow directions above from I-95 North ***
We will be taken the the start of the parade. The Masonic Home is the end of the parade. Meeting time is 11:45am. Please try to be there early.
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Organized in 1924, the Bracken Cavaliers claim the honor of being the first
and oldest junior drum and bugle corps in the United States of America.
The corps of cadets was originally formed and sponsored as a boy scout
troop of the Bristol Presbyterian Church by it’s first director, Harold
Bolton.
In 1925, under direction of Harry Burbank, the corps became affiliated
and sponsored by the Robert W. Bracken American Legion Post No. 382 of
Bristol, which, to this date is continuing to help with the sponsoring of the
Cavaliers.
The name Bracken is a memorial to Robert W. Bracken, the first Bristol
WWI casualty for whom the Legion bears the name, and of which the
Bracken Cavaliers have carried in proud tradition for over 80 years.
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