A Parade Past

Back in 2006, the 'Grand Marshals' of the Village Halloween Parade were members of KISS. I was on duty at the corner of West 4^th Street and 6^th Avenue. Sometime during the evening, I got to chatting with a reporter for one of the local publications. A few days later I got a copy of the story he wrote about the evening. It was stuck away and I had pretty much forgotten about it until I found it recently.  Kind of cool. At least I think so.   The story ended with this: 

"As the KISS float made its way up Sixth Avenue, fans screamed, costumed marchers either slowed down or sped up to walk among the photographers and film crew, and a middle-aged police officers took a momentary pause from crowd control to watch the procession go by.

As the entourage approached 4^th Street, a bespectacled, gray-haired policeman slowly weaved his way through the fans and photographers and approached the float. Auxiliary Police Sargent Maury Englander caught Paul Stanley's attention, and for a brief moment, the two men shook hands and had a private conversation.

The two made for quite a contrast: one, a member of New York's Finest, dressed in uniform blues, the other, a face-painted rock star dressed in leather and metal studs.

As the rolling party continued down Sixth Avenue, Englander remained behind, smiling to himself. He thought of the coincidental crossing of paths in the unlikeliest of places. In 1964, Stanley Eisen from Queens learned to play the guitar at Sandford Village Work Camp outside Binghamton, New York, from a camp counselor named Maury Englander.

It was another Halloween in the Village."

I am pretty sure this photo of me and Anne was shot at
another Village Halloween Parade, but there we are.

 Ps: After much soul searching - and purely for the sake of editorial accuracy -

 I left the "middle-aged," and the "bespectacled, gray-haired" bits in.

  So there!