New Orleans Boy Will Star in Holiday Parade

The star of today’s Halloween Parade through Greenwich Village will be a young trumpeter from New Orleans -- 10-year-old Glenn Hall III, whose house and horn were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. In New York City, he got a new trumpet that he will play in what is billed as the country’s biggest public Halloween event.

Glenn’s role as grand marshal is part of a New Orleans parade theme. The parade’s symbol -- as it was in 2001 after Sept. 11 -- is a phoenix rising from its ashes.

Glenn flew to New York last week with his 6-year-old sister, Jazz, and their parents, grandmother and cousin.

All of them have been living in Memphis, Tenn., after the hurricane destroyed their home. Glenn was given the new trumpet last week at the Manhattan-based Jazz Foundation.