The event’s guest of honor, in the person of Lincoln re-enactor Don Ancell of Oxnard , will travel the pilgrimage parade route from the high school to the Redlands Bowl in an 1860’s period, horse-drawn carriage.

Visitors may greet and pose for photographs with them at the Bowl.  

The Lincoln Pilgrimage parade will feature a colorful display of American flags proudly carried by the Sons of the Union Veterans Reserve Color Guard and Uniformed Division, accompanied by the Ladies Auxiliary; the Mountain Fifes and Drums; the 116^th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment; the McGowan Brigade, Battalion of Sharpshooters, 1^st Company; 2^nd U.S. Calvary; 69^th New York; and other Civil War re-enactor units.

Youth parade participants will include Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Brownies, and Cub Scouts, along with members of Kiwanis-affiliated local high school Key Clubs and Cope Middle School Builders Club of Redlands, 4-H members, Boys & Girls Clubs, and the Redlands YMCA Youth Circus.

Middle school bands in the procession will feature the Cope Drum Line and the Clement Viking Marching Band, both of Redlands. The 250-member Redlands Unified School District Combined Elementary Band will perform in both the parade and the Bowl program.

The elementary band will showcase Civil War and other patriotic songs. The band’s conductor is Jeff Apmadoc, who is an Eagle Scout himself.

Additional youth groups with parents and other adult leaders will follow the bands in the pilgrimage parade. They will be joined by a horse-drawn wagon from Riley’s Farm, which also is supplying the horse-drawn wagon for the President and Mrs. Lincoln re-enactors.

Redlands Mayor Pro Tem Pat Gilbreath and other distinguished local service club representatives will ride in corvette cars supplied by the Corvette Club or in classic antique cars. Bob Romero will represent the Kiwanis Club of Redlands (Noon), the Lincoln Pilgrimage sponsor since 1979.

The pilgrimage also will include antique and modern fire engines from the Redlands Fire Department, and the 4-H mounted horse units from Yucaipa and Calimesa. The Redlands Police Department will provide traffic control.