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EBOT is certainly excited to host our beloved Essex Ed parade. This year’s parade will be on Sunday, February 2nd at 2 pm, in celebration of Groundhog Day.  You can bring your pots and pans and head to Essex Village. Essex Ed, a larger-than-life groundhog, will make his annual pilgrimage from Essex Boatworks on Ferry Street and up Main Street. All are invited to join with noisemakers and your festive groundhog gear! Who will Essex Ed be? As always, Ed’s costume is a secret until his parade appearance. Each year a community organization dresses him in a costume that acknowledges a person or special occasion. That costume and organization will be revealed on the parade route to Ed’s final place of honor, at the roundabout on the top of Main Street.