How can it be that we have been doing lantern parades in Atlanta for ten years and have just found out that Atlanta has a long history of lantern parades? In 1887, the wheelmen were planning a bicycle lantern parade for the Piedmont exposition. "A bicycle is picturesque when dressed with lanterns." Candle-lit lanterns on bicycles! In 1893, “The wheelmen, with every lantern lit went out Peachtree to Pine . . .” In 1940, five-hundred children made a "living flag" with lanterns