Gaspee Days Parade 2014: Sights and Sounds

Warwick, RI – The 49th Annual Gaspee Days Parade started with a bang, and kept up the percussive momentum as a string of spectacles marched past appreciative throngs along Narragansett Parkway Saturday morning.

Colonial era attire, often with accompanying firearms shot off every few steps in between fife and drum renditions of early American music, dominated the event. Spectators anxious for bigger bangs headed for the Pawtuxet River Bridge, where a set of three cannon were manned by the Artillery Company of Newport.

But the attractions weren’t all colonial. Munroe Dairy fielded a brass band, vintage dairy truck and a cow mascot who hit it off big with kids.

Check out these photos from the event, and don’t forget the rest of the Gaspee Days festivities this weekend.