By Paige Colley
BU News Service
Why throw a parade to celebrate the arrival of a wheel of cheese? Because why not. The 10th annual Crucolo Parade was held in Concord on Dec. 5. To celebrate an entire decade of cheese parades, Peter Lovis, the proprietor of the Cheese Shop in Concord, threw a parade the only way he knew how: with music, an official town proclamation, and a 1,000-pound wheel of Crucolo cheese brought in all the way from Italy. Take a look at how the parade almost didn’t come together this year, and why this year was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. As Lovis says, “Why doesn’t love a cheese parade?”.
