The first Daffodil Festival parade in three years will take place Saturday morning, stepping off at 10 o’clock. Clockwise from left are photos of the parade from years past: The Gloucester Daffodil Festival Queen and Princesses and Little Miss Daffodil and contestants ride on a special float (2019); The Literacy Volunteers of Gloucester, dressed as happy bees, danced their way down Main Street (2018); 16-month-old Olivia Lovejoy and Lily Petrosky are dressed as daffodils in a wagon pulled by their grandmother, Pam Callis (2015); A group of budding daffodils from Achilles Elementary School (2013); first-place float winner among community groups went to the Gloucester Kiwanis Club/Key Club, whose passengers included Linny Georgiou, at left, and Afton Leigh Thayer (2012); and members of the Knights of Columbus marching in step (2011).

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