Continued from part III. SummerSnowmen (to the max):
Each year we try to make it bigger and more organized. For the second year our friend Christina choreographed a dance to "Carol of the Bells" which we have used every year. Kick lines and frolicking and a lot of intensity-that's the gist. Last year we alternated "Carol of the Bells" with a sweat accentuating dance to "Lady's Night". In the third year women joined. At first it was a boys club. Not intentionally, I don't think. But I do remember some debate in the early years as to whether girls were allowed. Someone kept insisting that "SnowMEN" meant only men. That same person, by the fifth year had made a complete 180 and was pushing a vote to change the group's name to "Snowsapians" to be more inclusive. The vote did not pass, though in some of the literature on the website (SummerSnowmen.com) Snowsapians is used to be more scientific. The website came in the fourth year. An indication of how established we had become. The first year we did it, it was just a prank, but we still won the trophy-"we won the parade!" we would say. And we won it every year since. There's always some dirty looks from some of the conservative military seriousness sector, but for the most part the town of Brookfield looks forward to seeing us every year. People have friends and family from other towns come just to see us. We've become a part of the culture, the traditions. It's ours. It's beautiful. It's our town parade. It's Summer Snowmen. Is it about America? I don't really know how to answer that. I guess I'd just say, as one of our shovel twirling chants goes: "July 4th is the 4th of July...Summer Snowmen will never die."
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