Article: FLORENCE Y'ALL FESTIVAL MARKS ITS 24TH YEAR.(News)

Byline: Post staff report

In Florence, Labor Day means Florence Y'All.

The city's 24th festival was held Friday through Monday on Main Street, with an Elvis impersonator, a pet show and a parade featuring veterans as grand marshals all leading up to a Rozzi's Famous Fireworks Monday night.

The festival, named after the city's signature water tower slogan, draws multi-generational crowds draw to the bands, the food and the pageants.

This year's chairwoman, City Councilwoman Melodee Merrell, 49, said, "I was in the first beauty pageant they had."

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