– Michael J. Nighan For several days this week, it was questionable whether the weather would put the kibosh on the balloons that are the main attraction of the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. Some of us have been down that road, or rather Manhattan street, before. The story you are about … Continue reading A Blast (of cold air) From the Past: The Syracuse University Marching Band and Macy’s 1971 Thanksgiving Day Parade