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PAY “AT THE DOOR” WHEN YOU ARRIVE
ANYTIME BETWEEN NOON-5PM
HOPE TO SEE YOU
Register/Pay at Hopewell Elementary School parking lot

As a sponsor, you will help our mission to preserve and care for land and
inspire a conservation ethic, now and forever, keeping our trails and preserves open,
maintaining a healthy environment and positivity in mind, body and spirit!

As a sponsor, you will receive VIP entrance passes.
Reply as an “early bird” by October 20th, and you will also be recognized
along the Parade Route and at drgreenway.org!

Best-selling author/artist and D&R Greenway trustee, Patrick McDonnell, creator of the MUTTS comic strip, is creating an iconic artwork to delight Parade-goers. He’s shown here with his syndicated MUTTS cartoon characters as they joined the Masquerade Parade in 2020.

Renowned local artist James Fiorentino’s Little Brown Bat will also be on display.

The D&R Greenway Land Trust second Masquerade Parade, will be held at the land trust’s historic St. Michaels Farm Preserve on Sunday, October 31. This drive-through holiday festival is designed for daylight hours on Halloween afternoon from noon until 5:00 p.m.

As with last year’s Parade, visitors’ cars will move past exciting stationary ‘floats’ on both sides of the Preserve’s pastoral roadway. These nature ‘floats’ are being designed by local organizations to evoke their mission with the event theme: “Birds, Bats and Bugs… Oh, MY!” Visitors are also invited to decorate their cars to this theme. It was chosen to honor Nature’s small but mighty ambassadors, whose pollinators are essential to life itself. Costumes are welcome and attendees are encouraged to create eye-catching signs revealing their favorite bird, bat or bug, as well as a fun fact about their favorite creature.

Every parade has live music: ours will feature our very own musician, Bill Flemer of Bill Flemer & Friends, on D&R Greenway’s ‘float’.

At departure, each car will receive a nature-themed goody bag of Halloween surprises, including the recently released children’s book, Princesses wear Dresses. With its theme of, “Because what makes a princess a princess is not what she wears, nor how her hair looks, nor what’s on her head,” author Dana Kvalheim and illustrators Lauren Kvalheim and Keeley Nolan convey a significant message with merriment and vigor.

Here are a few costumes from last year’s Masquerade Parade. We can’t wait to see all of you returning for our 2021 theme: Birds, Bats, and Bugs…. Oh My!

Funds from this unique event will expand the land trust’s preservation and stewardship accomplishments in central New Jersey. Public enthusiasm for D&R Greenway’s 44 miles of trails has continuously mounted as COVID 19 requires people to re-imagine their lives and discover new trails, even interact newly with Nature itself. Thanks to the generosity of donors and partners, previous fundraisers and conservation-related events, the preservation of our 317^th property has soared to over 21,200 New Jersey acres. This achievement secures countless sites for accessible healthy activity, enhancing fitness while protecting and expanding New Jersey’s natural beauty and crucial habitat for wild creatures, such as “Birds, Bars and Bugs… Oh, MY!”. The vigor of public response to our trails during the COVID challenge demonstrates that “Keeping Open Space Open” is more vital than ever before.

As a sponsor, you will help our mission to preserve and care for land and
inspire a conservation ethic, now and forever, keeping our trails and preserves open,
maintaining a healthy environment and positivity in mind, body and spirit!

As a sponsor, you will receive VIP entrance passes.
Reply as an “early bird” by October 20th, and you will also be recognized
along the Parade Route and at drgreenway.org!

Best-selling author/artist and D&R Greenway trustee, Patrick McDonnell, creator of the MUTTS comic strip, is creating an iconic artwork to delight Parade-goers. He’s shown here with his syndicated MUTTS cartoon characters as they joined the Masquerade Parade in 2020.

The D&R Greenway Land Trust second Masquerade Parade, will be held at the land trust’s historic St. Michaels Farm Preserve on Sunday, October 31. This drive-through holiday festival is designed for daylight hours on Halloween afternoon from noon until 5:00 p.m.

As with last year’s Parade, visitors’ cars will move past exciting stationary ‘floats’ on both sides of the Preserve’s pastoral roadway. These nature ‘floats’ are being designed by local organizations to evoke their mission with the event theme: “Birds, Bats and Bugs… Oh, MY!” Visitors are also invited to decorate their cars to this theme. It was chosen to honor Nature’s small but mighty ambassadors, whose pollinators are essential to life itself. Costumes are welcome and attendees are encouraged to create eye-catching signs revealing their favorite bird, bat or bug, as well as a fun fact about their favorite creature.

Every parade has live music: ours will feature our very own musician, Bill Flemer of Bill Flemer & Friends, on D&R Greenway’s ‘float’.

At departure, each car will receive a nature-themed goody bag of Halloween surprises, including the recently released children’s book, Princesses wear Dresses. With its theme of, “Because what makes a princess a princess is not what she wears, nor how her hair looks, nor what’s on her head,” author Dana Kvalheim and illustrators Lauren Kvalheim and Keeley Nolan convey a significant message with merriment and vigor.

Here are a few costumes from last year’s Masquerade Parade. We can’t wait to see all of you returning for our 2021 theme: Birds, Bats, and Bugs…. Oh My!

Funds from this unique event will expand the land trust’s preservation and stewardship accomplishments in central New Jersey. Public enthusiasm for D&R Greenway’s 44 miles of trails has continuously mounted as COVID 19 requires people to re-imagine their lives and discover new trails, even interact newly with Nature itself. Thanks to the generosity of donors and partners, previous fundraisers and conservation-related events, the preservation of our 317^th property has soared to over 21,200 New Jersey acres. This achievement secures countless sites for accessible healthy activity, enhancing fitness while protecting and expanding New Jersey’s natural beauty and crucial habitat for wild creatures, such as “Birds, Bars and Bugs… Oh, MY!”. The vigor of public response to our trails during the COVID challenge demonstrates that “Keeping Open Space Open” is more vital than ever before.