The Oyster Bay community welcomed and watched as the 150th Anniversary Parade for Theodore Roosevelt marched down South Street and turned on to Audrey Avenue where the town's showmobile was set up at Townsend Park on Saturday, Oct. 25. The parade was held in conjunction with this year's Theodore Roosevelt Association Annual Meeting held at local venues. Before the parade TRA members had lunch at the Matinecock Lodge on West Main Street, where TR was a member.

There were parades marking the 100th anniversary of TR's birth in 1958 and his 125th birthday in 1983. Barbara Kraft Comstock, a member of the TRA, told glowing stories of the 1983 event. She said there were floats marking each of TR's elected offices. The women marched with black skirts, in keeping with that period.

Ms. Comstock rode in her father's antique car, wearing a leopard skin cape. Ethel Roosevelt Derby had given her the leopard skin coat and her mother, Jessica Kraft had the coat remodeled into the cape for Barbara. "When the furrier worked on the cape he told us the fur was marked on the inside 'T. Roosevelt'," said Ms. Comstock.

Jessica Kraft was the first curator of Sagamore Hill and had been Edith Roosevelt's personal secretary. When her daughter Barbara married, Mrs. Derby gave her a linen tablecloth and 12 napkins with the initials ECR, for Edith Carow Roosevelt embroidered on them.

"I offered it back to one of the Roosevelts but they said, 'She gave it to you and it is yours.' I've never used the linens," said Ms. Kraft.