Complete List of Parades & Events in MA & RI This Memorial Day Weekend
This Memorial Day Weekend, gather your friends and family to celebrate & honor the soldiers who died while serving in the U.S. Military.
Below is complete list of parades, events and activities taking place in MA & RI this memorial Day Weekend May 27-29, 2017.
Greater Boston | North of Boston |
Cape Cod & The Islands
South of Boston | Central MA
Western MA | Rhode Island
Greater Boston
Parades
Arlington: 9:30
Cambridge: 9:30
Hudson: 10:00
Medford: 10:00
Needham: 6:50
Activities & Events
Service of Commemoration
– Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, May 24, 5:30-7:00pm
Words and music will help us to remember those who have gone before us during this Memorial Day Service on Bigelow Chapel Lawn. In the event of inclement weather, the Service will be held in Bigelow Chapel.
Street Performers Festival – Boston – May 27-29 – Street performers, world-class jugglers, clowns, storytellers, mimes, acrobats, dancers, storytellers, and others will perform on the cobblestone streets of the Faneuil Marketplace. Location: Faneuil Hall Marketplace. Time: all day. Cost: Free. 617- 523-1300
Memorial Day Weekend Sale – Wrentham Village Premium Outlets May 26 – 29 – Don’t miss the annual Memorial Day Weekend Sale. Enjoy extra discounts on top of already low outlet prices.
Museum of Fine Arts – Free Memorial Day open house
North of Boston
Parades
Haverhill: 10:30
Lexington: 9:00am
Marblehead: 9:00am
Methuen: 10:00am
Salem: 10:30am
Activities & Events
Newburyport Spring Fest – May 28-29
– Celebrate the season in downtown Newburyport! Thousands attend to enjoy great live music, art, fine crafts, food from Newburyport’s best restaurants and Kid’s Korner featuring entertainment for children and families and the ever popular Teddy Bear Parade.
Location: Downtown Newburyport
. Time: 10a.m.– 5 p.m.
Cost: Free
Information: 978-462-6680
South of Boston
Parades
Brockton: 11:00
Cohasset: 10:30
Fairhaven: 8:30
Fall River: 1:00
New Bedford: 11:00
Plymouth: 9:30
Somerset: 10:00
Swansea: 1:00
Taunton: 9:30
Westport: 8:00
Activities & Events
Free Admission for Veterans
– Battleship Cove – May 27-29. All active duty, retired and reserve military personnel who show proof of service will be honored with free admission to Battleship Cove.
Memorial Day Ceremony – Battleship Cove – May 29. Honor and commemorate the men and women who gave their lives for freedom. Experience a traditional military observance at 12:00 PM with the raising of the American flag from half-staff and a 21-gun salute. The ceremony is open to the public.
Military Service Appreciation Day – Buttonwood Park Zoo – 425 Hawthorn St., New Bedford – May 27 – 29. On Memorial Day Weekend all active duty, retired and reserve military personnel and their dependents who show proof of served will be honored with free admission to the Zoo.
Cape Cod & The Islands
Massachusetts National Cemetery – May 29 Annual Memorial Day Services. Bourne (508) 563-7113
Figawi Race Weekend
– May 26-29 -
Sailboat race from Hyannis to Nantucket Island and back; weekend-long festivities
Hyannis Yacht Club, Hyannis & Nantucket Boat Basin, Nantucket
Information: 508-778-6100
Central MA
Parades
Ashburnham: 8:45am
Ashby: 10:00am
Fitchburg: 10:00am
Palmer: 10:15
Phillipston: 9:00am
The parade steps off Sunday at 9:00am in front of the Church on the common
Southwick: 9:30
Ware: 1:00
West Brookfield: 9:00
Westminster: 11:00am
Activities & Events
Wool Days at Old Sturbridge Village – Sturbridge
– May 27-29
Wool Days means sheepshearing at Old Sturbridge Village, plus demonstrations of other parts of the seasonal processing of wool, including scouring, carding, dyeing, spinning, and weaving. Try your hand and learn about other fibers available to early New Englanders at our textile exhibit. Wool Days fall on Memorial Day weekend, when the Old Sturbridge Village stagecoach returns for the summer, along with the Quinebaug River Boat Ride.
AIS 49th Annual Memorial Powwow – May 27-28 Native American powwow 4H Camp Marshall, 92 McCormick Rd., Spencer
Royalston: May 29, 2 p.m. on the Common, including wreath laying and honor guard.
Tower Hill Botanic Garden
Veterans and military enter Tower Hill for free on Memorial Day.
Western MA
Parades
Agawam: 10:30
Amherst: 9:30
Chicopee: 10:00
Easthampton: 10:30
East Longmeadow: 10:50
Greenfield: 10:00
Hampden: 10:00
Holyoke: 9:00
Erving: 1:00
Ludlow: 9:00
Monson: 10:00
Montague: 10:15
Northampton: 9:30
Orange: Tully-9:00 & Downtown Orange-11:00
South Hadley: 11:00
Warwick: 1:00
Westfield: 10:00
West Springfield: 9:00
Wilbraham: 10:30
Activities & Events
Massachusetts Sheep & Woolcraft Fair
– May 27-28
Sheep shows, sheep dog trials, spinning contest, fiber contests & workshops, handcraft & hand spun yarn contests, fleece show & sale, shearing demo & shearing service.
Location: 97 Fairgrounds Rd., Cummington
Time:
Fee: $8:00 per vehicle
. Information: 413-458-0168
Memorial Weekend Sidewalk Sale May 26-29. Annual Memorial Weekend Sidewalk Sale featuring incredible savings on spring clearance and summer merchandise at participating stores. Lee Premium Outlets Lee
Paradise City Arts Festival – May 27-29, County Fairgrounds, Northampton. Ranked the #3 arts fair nationwide. This is truly one of the most spectacular fairs of fine craft, painting and sculpture in the whole country, lauded for its fresh, innovative approach. Four buildings, a big tent and a lush Sculpture Garden showcase 260 of the nation’s finest artists and craftspeople, featuring furniture, glass, large-scale sculpture, jewelry, paintings, ceramics, fashion and home furnishings. The Festival Dining Tent cooks up sensational cuisine by Northampton’s best chefs and a soundstage featuring live music with a New Orleans beat by the likes of Charles Neville and Samirah Evans. The theme this spring is “Wild Things!”, with an exhibit of art inspired by the animal kingdom, a silent art auction to benefit the Dakin Animal Shelter and a host of children’s activities and demonstrations centered on animals. Boston Magazine writes, ‘There’s no better place in the country to pick up original artwork than the Paradise City Arts Festival.
Statewide Events
Blue Star Museums – Blue Star Museums is a collaboration among the National Endowment of the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 1,500 museums across America. First launched in the summer of 2010, Blue Star Museums offers free admission to all active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day, May 29, through Labor Day, September 4, 2017.
Rhode Island
Events & Parades
Providence: Boots on the Ground for Heroes Memorial, Operation Stand Down Rhode Island. 383-4730, osdri.org. May 25: Gold Star Gala, Crowne Plaza, 801 Greenwich Ave., Warwick, 5:30 p.m., featuring a meal, silent auction and live music by the Reggie Centracchio Quintet. Tickets from $75.
May 26-29: Memorial, Roger Williams Park, Temple to Music, 1000 Elmwood Ave., Providence. Display of military boots, flags and name tags representing service members killed in action post Sept. 11. May 28: Rhode Island National Guard 88th Army Band Concert, 6:30 p.m., free.
MAY 27
Providence: Film, “D-Day – Over Normandy”: World War II Foundation, Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Providence. 421-2787, 644-8244, wwiifoundation.org. World premiere of new documentary narrated by Patriots coach Bill Belichick. Q&A session with the producer and director of the film, Tim Gray; linebacker Rob Ninkovich of the New England Patriots, and two Rhode Island first-wave D-Day veterans of Omaha Beach. 1 p.m. $15.
Seekonk: Parade steps off at 10 a.m. from Seekonk High School, 261 Arcade Ave., travels north on Arcade Avenue, north on Newman Avenue and ends at the Hurley Middle School. Complimentary hot dogs and hamburgers at American Legion Post 311, 351 Fall River Ave., after parade. (508) 844-3657.
MAY 27-29
Warwick: Avenue of Flags, Pawtuxet Memorial Park, 100 Harrison Ave. (between Warwick Avenue and Fair Street). 781-4600. More than 300 American flags displayed. May 27-29 9 a.m.-5 p.m., weather permitting. Free.
MAY 28
Charlestown: Parade steps off at 1 p.m. from Ridgewood Drive, follows Old Post (Route 1A) south to King Tom Drive passing through the business district and the village of Cross Mills. Parade stops for ceremonies for those who died on land and at sea at Cross Mills Baptist Church cemetery and Cold Brook Memorial and includes wreath laying. Ceremony after parade at Charlestown Naval Airfield Memorial, Ninigret Park, off Route 1A, in honor of airmen who died, including those in training at the Charlestown naval facility in World War II. Concert by the Wakefield Concert Band, brief speaking program after at Ninigret Park Pavilion.
Warren: Memorial Recognition Program, Vietnam Memorial, Route 136 and Market Street. 9 a.m.
MAY 29
Dighton-Rehoboth: Parade begins near the Rehoboth Council on Aging, 55 Bay State Rd., Rehoboth, at 10:15 a.m., travels on Pond Street for ceremony and flag-raising.
East Greenwich: Parade steps off at 10 a.m. from Academy Field, Rector Avenue, and travels Mawney Street onto First Avenue for a wreath laying at the World War II Memorial on the corner of Cliff Street, continues north to the Town Hall, 125 Main St., for closing ceremonies at 11 a.m. The “Lone Pipe,” Aaron Lindo, leads the parade, which features police and fire honor guards, elected officials, Grand Marshal Lt. Col. Patrick C. Gallogly, USMC, the Kentish Guards and Varnum Continentals, the Nightlife Marching Band and the Blue Knights Law Enforcement motor group. Local fire companies will display apparatus including antiques from the East Greenwich Fireman’s Association. Closing ceremonies include a recitation of the Gettysburg Address. The 143 Airlift Wing from the Rhode Island Air National Guard provides a flyover. In case of inclement weather, a ceremony will be held in Swift Community Center, 121 Peirce St., at 10 a.m. 886-8604, 261-7729.
Exeter: Rhode Island Veterans Memorial Cemetery, 301 South County Trail. Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 325, Memorial Ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Monument, 7 a.m. Guest speakers, roll of names of Rhode Island War heroes. Jim Tourgee Jr., 677-5070.
Fall River: Traditional military observance, Battleship Cove, 5 Water St. (508) 678-1100, battleshipcove.org.
North Providence: Parade steps off 1 p.m. from North Providence High School, 1828 Mineral Spring Ave., marches down Mineral Spring Avenue , north onto Douglas Avenue and ends at Governor Notte Jr. Park, 1810 Mineral Spring Ave., where a festival will be held until 6 p.m. Food vendors, music, more. 719-1633, northprovidenceri.gov.
North Kingstown: Wreath laying at Civil War Memorial, Town Hall grounds, 80 Boston Neck Rd. (Route 1A), and at memorials at Veterans Memorial Park, Boston Neck Road, at 9 a.m. Parade steps off at 10 a.m. from Wilson Park, West Main, Brown and Phillips streets through Wickford Village then onto Tower Hill Road (Route 1 south) to the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial on the grounds of Elm Grove Cemetery for concluding ceremonies at around 11 a.m. In case of rain, wreath laying for Town Hall and Veterans Memorial Park will still go forward at 9 a.m. and at Elm Grove Cemetery at 11 a.m. Hot dog roast after parade at First Baptist Church, 1135 Tower Hill Rd.
Pawtucket: Pawtucket Veterans’ Council Wreath Laying Ceremonies, at 9 a.m. at shell at Slater Park, Armistice Boulevard entrance; 9:15 a.m. at the hiker monument in Grove Street Park, Exchange and Cottage streets; 9:30 a.m. at the Korean War Monument, Park Place; and 10 a.m. at the Mineral Spring Avenue Cemetery, Mineral Spring Avenue and Conant Street. Main ceremony at Veterans Memorial Park, Roosevelt Avenue and Exchange Street at 11 a.m. 725-0191.
Scituate: American Legion Post 19 Parade forms at 10 a.m. at Berkander Field and Institute Lane and steps off at 10:30 a.m. from the corner of Institute Lane and Danielson Pike (Route 6), proceeds west on Danielson Pike to Silk Lane to West Greenville Road, to the steps of the Old Historical Congregational Church for ceremonies. case of rain, ceremonies held inside the North Scituate Community House, 195 Danielson Pike.
South Kingstown: Parade begins at 10 a.m. on Holley Street (behind Benny’s), travels Main Street, to High Street, ending with a ceremony at Saugatucket Park, High Street, Wakefield. USAF veteran Col. Rusty “Waldo” Walden, Parade Grand Marshal. Lt. Col. James Halderman, USMC (ret.), Master of Ceremonies. Parade includes active and retired military, bands, numerous marching groups, community organizations, public safety agencies. Family members of a deceased veteran welcome to march in the military division of the parade with a framed photo of their love one. Contact Steve Stewart, 789-1657, or Terry Murphy, 789-9301. All invited to the Elks Lodge 1899, 60 Belmont St., Wakefield, for refreshments after events. Weather line: 789-9301 or southkingstownri.com.
Smithfield: Memorial service, Veterans Memorial, Deerfield Park, Deerfield Drive. Presented by American Legion Balfour-Cole Post 64 and Smithfield Memorial Veterans of Foreign War Post 2929 and its ladies auxiliary. Parade of colors kicks off the ceremony at 10:30 a.m. with honor guards from the Smithfield Police and Fire departments.
Warren: Naval Honors Ceremony, Town Wharf, Water Street, 7:45 a.m. Military Honors Ceremony, Town Commons, State and High streets, 8:15 a.m. Parade steps off at 8:30 a.m. from the Town Commons and ends at the South Burial Ground for ceremonies.
Warwick: Parade steps off at 9:15 a.m. from Bishop Hendricken High School, 2615 Warwick Ave., travels south on Warwick Avenue, west onto West Shore Road and ends at Warwick Veterans Memorial Park, 2401 West Shore Rd. Gov. Gina Raimondo, Mayor Scott Avedisian, City Council members and state representatives will participate. For questions, contact Sgt. Anthony Rodrigues at 919-8951.
West Greenwich: Parade steps off at 1:30 p.m. from 21 Victory Highway (Route 102); speaking program afterward.
West Warwick: West Warwick Veterans Council Observance, West Warwick Veterans Memorial Park, Two Legion Way. Guest speaker is Col. Joe McGraw of the U.S. Naval War College. 9:30 a.m.
Westerly-Pawcatuck: Parade forms at the Pawcatuck Shopping Center, 37 South Broad St., Pawcatuck, Conn., at 8:30 a.m.; steps off at 9:30 a.m., travels West Broad Street, stops on the bridge, turns onto High Street and enters Wilcox Park for ceremonies. 596-0837.
Woonsocket: Observance hosted by the United Veterans Council and the City of Woonsocket, 10:30 a.m., United Veterans Council Armed Forces Park, Davidson Avenue, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the United States’ entry into World War I and includes the reading of the names of the Rhode Islanders who lost their lives during that conflict. Rain site, Woonsocket City Hall’s Harris Hall, 8 a.m.
Sources: R.I. Memorial Day events 2017, Memorial Day MA | Memorial Day Massachusetts | Memorial Day Boston
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