Eastford

Memorial Day

celebration

EASTFORD — May 29 Eastford’s Memorial Day Parade starts at 9:30 a.m. at the Eastford Elementary School. Community members are invited to join the parade. 

Immediately following the parade, a Memorial Day Ceremony will take place at the Veteran’s Memorial in front of the Ivy Glenn Memorial in the center of town. The ceremony includes an invocation, the recognition of an Eastford Veteran, the laying of a memorial wreath by the scouts, a Military Salute, and musical presentations by the Eastford Singers, the Woodstock Coronet Band, and Eastford Elementary School Students. 

Weather and availability  permitting, a National Guard airplane flyover will take place. Preceding the parade, Memorial Day services will take place at the General Lyon Cemetery at 8:30 a.m. and the Grove Cemetery on Rt. 198 at 9 a.m.