This month’s exhibit celebrates summer in Kingston with picnics and parades, fresh sweet corn from the farmer’s market, swimming, fishing, and just lounging on the grass eating ice cream.
![eve-02-0002-kanni Horse-drawn float in the 200th Anniversary Parade, 1926](https://www.kplma.org/pique/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eve-02-0002-kanni.jpg)
Here’s the front of a float in Kingston’s 200th Anniversary Parade, which rolled on August 20, 1926. The four boys behind the float seem very interested in whatever’s going on behind that shack…
![eve-09-0004-hath Bathing beauties on 200th Anniversary Parade float, 1926](https://www.kplma.org/pique/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/eve-09-0004-hath.jpg)
Well, yeah, that’s why!