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Parade entries line up before the start of the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.

The horseback riders, wagons and carriages were back on Mass. Street on Saturday for the annual Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade, one of Lawrence’s longest-running holiday traditions. The parade turned 30 years old this year and, as usual, drew dozens of entries from Kansas and elsewhere in the region.

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Nancy Miller, center, driver and owner of Pleasant Hill Carriage Rides, rolls along Delaware Street in her early 1900s surrey with a fringe on top before the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.

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Outrider Janie Hill, left, leads the Hill Ya Say Ranch Canadian-made four-passenger wagonette, driven by Wesley Hill, during the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.

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Driver Bob Winchell, of Van Meter, Iowa, and his team of mules pull a farm wagon at the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.

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Leslie Owen, of Paola, rides behind Esther, a 12-year-old donkey, at the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.

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Children sit in the back of a truck and watch the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.

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A mail coach from 3 Jump Farms of Boliva, Missouri, passes by during the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.

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Parade-watchers follow horseback riders as they pass by on Delaware Street at the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.

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A man blows bubbles while the crowd waits for the start of the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.

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Children watch from the windows of the Eldridge Hotel during the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.

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Children watch the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.

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A dog rides beside a wagon driver in the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.

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A boy rides with members of the Garnett Saddle Club at the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.

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A line of entrants prepare for the start of the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023.

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Bill and Trevor McCracken, of Lenexa, approach the turn onto Massachusetts Street at the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.

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Bill McCracken, of Lenexa, waves to the crowd at the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.

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A parade-watcher waves to passing carriages and riders and rings bells at the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.

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Members of the Douglas County Road Riders pass through downtown Lawrence at the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023.

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Gordon Murray of the Murray Horse Company, of Mankato, waves to the crowd driving his team of crossbred Paint/Percheron geldings at the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.

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Mike Pavel and Heidi Resco Pavel, of Clyde, with Elk Creek Acres, drive Iam, a Norwegian Fjord Cross, at the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.

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Driver Liz Rombach, of Lawrence, drives her 22 year-old miniature horse at the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.

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A group of parade watchers sing “Jingle Bells” at the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.

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A rider reaches to high-five a young child at the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.

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Driver Leslie Birkenholz and her father Louis Birkenholz of Birkenholz Stock Farm, in Hopkins, Missouri, participate in the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.

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The Grinch joins in the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.

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Frank Burkdoll, of Lyndon, center, drives a team of Norwegian Fjord as Santa Claus rides along at the 2023 Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in downtown Lawrence.