Cinnaminson Mummers to Strut Their Stuff Today
The Jolly Jolly Comics—made up of adults and kids in Cinnaminson—are ready for their big day.
This morning, the Jolly Jolly Comics—a comics division of the Mummers—will take to Philadelphia's Broad Street with more than 200 participants, several of them Cinnaminson natives. Thanks to township residents Brian Callahan and Tommy Wheeler—neighbors who grew up on the same street in the Juniata Park section of Philadelphia—the tradition has lived on for three decades. Now, Callahan and Wheeler are getting their children involved…and their children’s friends. “As the years have gone by,” Callahan said, “with all of us getting married and having kids, now all of our kids are in the parade.” It started 30 years ago for 46-year-old Callahan. A former Mummers band, the Juniata Strutters, used to meet in the home behind his in Philadelphia…
dennis stasen
12:59 pm on Tuesday, January 1, 2013
you go bri and wheels, loved watching you, brings back many memories, always den cool more ›