Tullytown Celebrates 125th Anniversary & Memorial Day With Large Parade

Sisters Denise Crouse and Diane Coulton take in the parade.
Credit: Erich Martin/Levittownnow.com

Tullytown celebrated its 125th anniversary with its annual Memorial Day Parade on Saturday.

The parade was the biggest the town has had in years. The marching started on Levittown Parkway and crossed Route 13 to enter into old Tullytown. The parade also featured Pennsbury’s Long Orange Line, a point of family for sisters Denise Crouse and Diane Coulton.

The sisters have always had the Tullytown Memorial Day parade as part of their life, but as alumni of the Long Orange Line, both were excited to see the band’s first trip into Tullytown for the parade.

Crouse, who graduated from Pennsbury and the band in the 1970s, was a chaperone when her daughter was in the color guard. On Saturday, she was cheering on her granddaughter, Charlee, who was marching with the Walt Disney Elementary School in the parade.

“It warms my heart to see my granddaughter parading through Tullytown,” Crouse said. “This is particularly exciting because it is the 125th anniversary of Tullytown and its the biggest [parade] since 1991.”

The sisters are regulars in Tullytown, attending the free concerts and other community events.

“I’m deep rooted in this community. I’ve never been anywhere that I would consider leaving the area for,” Crouse said.

“We’ve been doing these parades since the 70s when we were in them,” Coulton mentioned, explaining that she and her sister attended local parades while performing in them even when they weren’t in the bands anymore.