MARCHING OFF.

Midsummer is the beginning of the Schützenfest season, which in Germany is an excuse for the winning sharpshooter to buy everyone in the competition a beer, and it might include a street parade.

While the politically fretful types were carrying on about whether there was or was not a North Korean parade in Washington, D.C., the burghers of Bedburg held Die große Parade.

Sometimes you see those echoes of Der Kaiser's drill fields.

Cold Spring Shops will be standing down until after Independence Day.  Thank you for looking in.  Dissent is the quintessence of Independence.  Freedom Week will go into overtime again in the State Line.  Oktoberfest season will soon begin.  Find yourself a circus and go to it.