Editorial

Happy 4^th of July!

By: Bob Mathews

It has been explained to us by someone who was there that a group of veterans came together in Kenilworth Subdivision on July 4, 1972 and began a tradition that is still being carried on in our town. The vets rode bicycles and riding lawnmowers out into the street that day and into Baton Rouge history. They started what will soon become the 36^th Annual Independence Day Parade which is set to roll through Kenilworth on Thursday, July 3^rd at 6:30 p.m.

No doubt some of the gentlemen who started Baton Rouge’s only parade in celebration of our nation’s birth were fueled by the same brand of “root beer” as Smiley Anders and I enjoyed at the venerable old Pastime Lounge back in the 1960’s. Historians report that it was not tea those “Indians” were drinking either when they dumped a large cargo of the makings for that beverage into Boston Harbor on the evening of Thursday, December 16, 1773. The Boston Tea Party sparked the American Revolution that actually began with the signing of the Declaration of Independence some two-and-one-half years later on July 4^th 1776.

It is also historically accurate that during the first century and a half following our nation’s birth July 4^th was the most exciting time of the year in our country. By comparison, Christmas was a much smaller event back then. Of course merchants have changed all of that so that we now begin celebrating Christmas before Halloween and the far less profitable Independence Day has been reduced to second class status.

Fortunately, however, that is not the case in Kenilworth which also conducts a beautiful Luminaires Celebration that draws people from many miles away on the Sunday evening that starts Christmas week each year. Residents line the curbs and sidewalks (yes, there are sidewalks in Kenilworth) with candles in paper bags in a beautiful display of community spirit and togetherness that is a true reflection of the spirit of Christmas and Christian values.

So Christmas is a big deal in Kenilworth, but so is Independence Day at the opposite end of the year. It starts with Realtor Linda Fredericks and her crew of hearty volunteers placing a small American flag in front of each of the 815 homes in the subdivision. This is followed by the wonderful sound of motorcycle sirens and excited children who line the parade route to catch candy and recycled Mardi Gras beads thrown by the riders and walkers who mark the passage of another year of freedom for our nation and its people. Last year the riders included the three leading candidates in the race for governor of our state, and the eventual winner turned out to be a young man who actually grew up in Kenilworth.

Look, there are fancier subdivisions than Kenilworth where you will find newer, bigger homes (with higher monthly notes than most people in Kenilworth can afford), but you won’t find more of the spirit of neighborly cooperation and togetherness than you will find in the subdivision where the mayor of Baton Rouge and most of our elected officials and would-be elected officials ride each year in a fulsome display of community pride. If you come to our city’s only Independence Day Parade this year you might be able to shake hands with a U.S. Senator or two and you can meet one-to-one and face-to-face with many of the people who run our town and our great state. And best of all you will be rubbing elbows with the finest bunch of neighbors you’ll ever meet.

We salute the proud veterans who started the Kenilworth Independence Day Parade, the Kenilworth Civic Association that sponsors the event and the proud people who live in one of the finest places in the best city in the United States of America.

God bless the people of Kenilworth, the City of Baton Rouge, the State of Louisiana and (while it may no longer be politically correct to say it) God Bless America!

Happy 4^th of July everyone!!!

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