Telluride Celebrates Graduating Seniors with Parade Down Main Street

May 16, 2020

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A large group of students in maroon and white graduation gowns and caps pose for a photo on steps in front of a historic brick school building. The sky is partly cloudy, and trees surround the scene.

By Julia Caulfield

Photo by Jack Plantz

Photo by Jack Plantz

High School graduation for the class of 2020 will – hopefully – be like non other. Schools closing, learning going online, shelter in place orders, a pandemic have forced teachers and administrators to get creative with how they celebrate this year’s graduating class. Graduation in Telluride will take place next week, but on Thursday, seniors were treated to their very own parade down Main Street.

In decked out cars, bikes, the occasional motorcycle, and fire engines to start, graduating students – in full cap and gown – and their families drove down Colorado Ave, waiving to supportive onlookers.

Those onlookers, socially distanced – for the most part – and through mask muffled voices shared their well wishes for these students, as they leave the safe nest of home and head into an uncertain adulthood.

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