Bowie's annual Memorial Day Parade begins at 11 a.m. today at the Bowie High School Annex on Belair Drive and ends at the Market Place Shopping Center. Other streets along the parade route include Sussex Lane, Stoneybrook Drive and Sage Lane, so those roads will be closed to normal traffic.
The U.S Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps will participate in the parade, along with Bowie High School Marching Band, Eleanor Roosevelt High School Pep Band, Panquility Steel Drum Band, Prince George's County Police Bagpipe Band, the Bowie Volunteer Fire Department Company. You'll also see a variety of floats, antique cars, dance groups, beauty queens, marching units and veterans organizations,
Officials suggest watching the parade from Acorn Hill Park and Sussex Lane Park, where food and drink concessions and restrooms will be available.
After the parade, the Back Pages Band will perform Beatles' music from the sixties at the lawn on Sussex Lane, across from the original Levitt & Sons model homes, to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Belair at Bowie.
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