A quartet of Wayne County towns are getting together to celebrate “Old Wolcott” this weekend.
The Old Wolcott Four Town Parade and Candlelight Service begins at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 16, at the Wolcott Fire Hall on West Port Bay Road and will wind through the towns of Butler, Huron, Rose and Wolcott before ending with a bicentennial candlelight service in Wolcott Village Park.
The festivities won’t celebrate a person, but rather commemorate when the 19th-century town of Wolcott, “Old Wolcott,” was broken into the towns of Butler, Port Bay (now called Huron), Rose and Wolcott on April 3, 1826.
The parade includes four floats honoring each town and the candlelight service, set for 7:30 p.m., features students from the North Rose-Wolcott High School choir and band.
The celebration coincides with the grand reopening of the Palace Theatre in the village of Wolcott. The movie house closed its doors on Sept. 1, 2024, after a 31-year run under the previous owner Amber Roberts, according to the Finger Lakes Times.
The Palace will host a Tom Cruise double feature Saturday with the original “Top Gun” (1986) and “Top Gun: Maverick” (2022). Doors open at 8:30 p.m.
The Town of Wolcott is named after Oliver Wolcott, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Bill Wolcott is a producer who helps cover the Buffalo Bills, high school and Rochester sports in general. The lifelong New Yorker has been a journalist for 32 years.
This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Four Wayne County towns come together to celebrate ‘Old Wolcott’
Reporting by Bill Wolcott, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle / Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
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