TUPELO — A hallmark of Northeast Mississippi’s holiday season and the area’s largest and most attended Christmas parade returns for the 76th time tonight.
The 76th Annual Reed’s Tupelo Christmas Parade will return to the downtown area starting at 6 p.m. tonight. The parade will start at Front Street on the east side and move west.
Each year’s parade carries a different holiday motif; this year’s theme is “Christmas Dreams Do Come True.”
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The parade is the largest annual event that the Downtown Tupelo Main Street Association (DTMSA) organizes and the largest Christmas parade in the Northeast Mississippi area.
Information provided by the Community Development Foundation shows more than 20,000 individuals attended last year’s event, based on cell phone numbers. With all those people, traffic is bound to get backed up; organizers are asking parade-goers and those in the downtown area to be patient.
Each year the DTMSA and Reed’s honors a person, business or organization by naming them the grand marshal of the parade. This year, the Regional Rehabilitation Center will serve in that role.
“It is an opportunity for us to honor the great people and organizations,” Jack Reed Jr. told the Daily Journal in November. “There are none better than the Regional Rehab Center, and we are delighted to be able to put the spotlight on them.”
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