As is the modern way, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was buttressed by blockades of sand-filled sanitation trucks, patrolled by sniffer dogs and guarded by police. But as it has been for 90 prior parades, it was also thronged by children, packed with marching bands and dotted overhead with leviathan balloons yawing in blue-sky breeze. To Jacob and Keith Maloney, brothers from Washington, D.C., it was better than ever. “My dad was marching,” Jacob, 9, said some hours after, still a little star-struck. “And then I did: ‘Woo hoo!’”Advertisement Continue reading the main story—SARAH MASLIN NIR

Source: New York Times November 23, 2017 22:29 UTC