No, Virginia, there will be no Village Easter Egg Hunt this year at College Square Park. I recently realized that April was fast approaching, and that no one had contacted Sandy or I, at the Chronicle, regarding advertising the big annual children’s Easter Egg hunt in our community.
After contacting Main Street to see if there was going to be an Easter Egg Hop throughout the downtown business district, I was told that there would not be one.
Then, after hearing rumor that the Cambridge Parents’ Club had decided not to do the hunt this year, I got on the phone to confirm that, yes, it’s true, they decided against putting on the big hunt this year.
Now, I don’t have young children who can take advantage of it, but I definitely think that it will be missed.
It’s just hard to believe that the Easter Bunny isn’t going to hop through Cambridge and leave all those candy filled eggs in College Square Park for all the little kids to race for.
Even though Easter is really about the passing and resurection of Christ—each year, youngsters and their parents look forward to participating in the egg hunt, and I find it hard to believe that everyone has just decided that it’s just too much work to make this happen.
Times are hard, money is short, people are unemployed, and it is extremely difficult to find a bright spot some days, but for one day a year, it puts a smile on everyone’s face when they see those little ones pick up those bright eggs off the lawn of the park.
Have we all gotten too busy? It’s just a shame that the Cambridge Easter Egg Hunt will be just another thing to quietly fizzle out, and it’s a shame to say that this year, as far as we know, no Virginia - there will be no Easter Egg Hunt at College Square Park.
Misty Wilson, Chronicle Staff Member, Cambridge
