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Riding in style
Clydesdale-pulled carriages offer festival ‘tours’
Ice Festival visitors will have the
opportunity to travel in style, seeing
the ice sculptures and attractions from
the comfort of a horse-drawn carriage
this year.
Warren and Fay Atwell, owners of
the oldest Clydesdale farm in the state,
will be bringing two teams of the
famous horses to Plymouth along with
two large carriages to provide rides
through the downtown streets.
The Atwells have been raising
Clydesdales for more than 46 years at
their Flushing farm and will travel the
70 miles Friday, Saturday and Sunday
bringing the gentle giants toPlymouth.
“We will trailer the carriages down
on Friday and leave them over the
weekend,” Warren Atwell said, “but
the horseswill go back home in trailers
every night for a good feed and a nice
rest.”
Atwell will be driving one of the car-
riages himself and his granddaughter
will probably handle the reins at the
other.
“It's a family business,” Atwell said,
“ andwe all love it.”
The horses have lots of experience
at festivals and events and are old
hands at making their way through
crowds,” Atwell explained. Most
recently, one of the carriages he is
bringing was used in the Thanksgiving
Day parade in Chicago and ferried one
of the Disney princesses along the
route in front of about a million admir-
ers.
“One year we carried Donald Duck
and Daisy for Disney during the light-
edparade,”Atwell said.
These carriages are called “people
movers” or “trolleys” Atwell said and
will seat 15 to 20 people. The rides will
travel through town and can be board-
ed atMainStreet near Penniman.
Cost to ride is $5 per person, Atwell
said.
The horse-drawn carriage rides will
be available from 4-8 p.m. Friday and
Saturday and fromnoon until 4 p.m. on
Sunday.
For more information, visit Camelot
Farms onFacebook.
