Larry Doss leads a team of horses and a carriage with family and friends along Central Avenue in McKinleyville for the Pony Express Days parade last Saturday. The local rancher and businessman, his stagecoach, carriages and horses have been a constant reminder of Humboldt Americana at countless celebrations and parades on the North Coast for decades. (Jose Quezada, HUMEDIA/For the Times-Standard) Trinity Davis, 12, walks along a rope bridge built by Boy Scout Troop 99 at a more tactile and adventurous part of the Pony Express Days celebration at Pierson Park.
(Jose Quezada, HUMEDIA/For the Times-Standard) Adrena Barnett employs a novel tabletop for resting her slushy icy snow cone cup while enjoying a big slurp of the icy treat with her friend Emerson Mikolai. The pair of 8-year-olds were at the Pioneer Days festival at Pierson Park last Saturday. (Jose Quezada, HUMEDIA/For the Times-Standard) Members of McKinleyville Loyal Order of Moose Lodge 208 get into springy dance listening to the rock country sounds of Monument Road playing live at Pierson Park for Pony Express Days.
(Jose Quezada, HUMEDIA/For the Times-Standard) The Pony Express Days Celebration and Festival, organized by members of the McKinleyville Chamber of Commerce, brought hundreds to Pierson Park. "Pony Express Days is an old-fashioned, family-friendly festival. The festival is a gathering of families, artisans, crafts people and community groups," said chamber executive director Jesse Miles.
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