By KENNEDY GRIFFIN
(Greenfield, MA) The City of Greenfield will be celebrating Memorial Day on Monday, May 30th with a parade and ceremony. The parade will begin at the Greenfield Middle School on Sanderson Street at 10 a.m. and the dedication ceremony will be taking place afterwards at the Veterans Memorial Mall on Main Street in Greenfield at 10:45 a.m.
The parade will travel south from the Greenfield Middle School to the Federal Street Cemetery, then east onto Church Street, turn on Franklin Street, and then onto Main Street, stopping at the Greenfield Public Library, to the Common, and finishing at the Veterans Memorial Mall for the dedication ceremony.
Throughout the parade there will be stops to honor the nation’s war dead and in particular those who died in the Revolutionary War, Spanish-American War, Civil War, World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War. And there will be a special tribute to the Greenfield native, Duncan Wells, who was killed in action during the Civil War and laid to rest at the Green River Cemetery.
Speakers at the Veterans Memorial Mall dedication ceremony will include Upper Pioneer Valley Veterans’ Services District Director Timothy Niejadlik, Father Valentine Nworah of the Catholic Community of Greenfield, Mayor Roxann Wedegartner and local resident Channing L. Bete Jr., who was exposed to radiation during the Cold War. Music will be provided by the Greenfield High School Marching Band.