Other activities kept people busy, and the parade will return next year, organizers said.
Franklin — Margie and Barry Kaplan took their seats on Franklin Road, just before noon, just before Franklin Labor Day parade would begin. They got great seats. Perhaps too great. “No parade this year,” said Ron Berris. “That was a bummer,” Margie said later. “When you show up 15 minutes before and walk right up, you figure something’s up,” Barry said. The husband and wife attend the parade every year, and came out Monday thinking there’d be one. After learning otherwise, they packed up their lawn chairs and headed back out for the rest of the event. There was still plenty of holiday to enjoy. This was the Franklin Labor Day Round-up,2021 style: back from the Covid-19 pandemic, but not all the way. In his professional life, Berris is a dentist. On the side he participates in the Franklin-Bingham Farms reserve police force. His partner, Officer Cruise, is a “14- or 15-year-old” Tennessee Walker horse, Berris says.
