Happy New Year! Philadelphia has its own special celebration on New Year's Day - the Mummers Parade. The parade features local groups (Mummers) in one of four categories: comics, fancies, string bands, and fancy brigades,They prepare elaborate costumes, performance routines, and moveable scenery and march down our main street, Broad Street. This year, the balmy weather allowed us to stay out all day to watch the spectacle.