Big and small. Red and green. For more than an hour, tractors kept on rolling through Callicoon this Sunday for the hamlet’s annual Tractor Parade. 

Kicked off by this year’s grand marshal, long-time Town of Delaware Clerk Tess McBeath, the 29th annual event drew 247 tractors (give or take a few that circled the town twice) to celebrate the agricultural traditions that gave shape to the hamlet. 

First farmed by the peoples of the Lenni Lenape nation, the land of present-day Callicoon has long been steeped in farming tradition. In his 1873 chronicle of Sullivan County, historian James Eldridge Quinlan said of the hamlet, “no other town of Sullivan is more fertile, or has greater natural advantages.” 

Thanks to the parade host, the Delaware Youth Center, those natural advantages were on display for a packed crowd on Sunday, which numbered well over 1,500.