My very first involvement in float building was my Senior year in High School, helping to build, and ultimately tow, our float for the Homecoming Parade, 1988.        The first float that I built on my own was to advertise my parent's store in The  Geauga County Maple Festival Parade in 1990. They owned a fabric and linen store and wanted to promote the sales of their high quality sewing machines, so I set out building a float size sewing machine.        The following year I decided to do something totally unrelated to my parent's business.  Bart was a hit. The 1991 Geauga County Maple Festival Parade.        Bart appeared, once again, for the July 4th, 1991, "Salute To America Parade" (you remember the Gulf War, right?)         After a long hiatus, trying desperately year after year to find the time to build the next float, I began working on the 2002 Geauga County Maple Festival Parade entry in early January, 2002.    (Parade in April)

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