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Willimantic Marches To The Beat Of Its Own Boom Box
Willimantic celebrated America's Birthday with boom boxes instead of a marching band in the 26th annual WILI Boom Box Parade.
Back in the day, in 1986 to be exact, Willimantic searched for a marching band for its Memorial Day parade but came up empty.
There was fretting (probably), there was worrying (almost certainly), and there was gnashing of teeth (possibly).
But not to fret, Willimantic found a way; it being the 80s, they turned to that most wonderous of items, the boom box.
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WILI Radio supplied the marching band music via the airwaves, the floats and people marching cranked their boom boxes, and thus the WILI Boom Box Parade was born.
And for 26 years, it's been going strong; 2011 was no exception.
