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Get ready for the highly anticipated return of a crafty quintessential tradition taking place this weekend in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. It’s the one and only Pocono State Craft Festival, a mainstay annual event held every August for four decades. Hosted by the Pocono Arts Council, the featured festival remains the most celebrated premier arts and crafts … Continue reading A Peek at the Pocono State Craft Festival
Summer fair season is now underway throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. And for Pennsylvania folks especially, this makes for plenty of farm festivals, follies, and family-friendly fun to go around. It also marks the return of some long-held seasonal favorites, which eager folks look forward to every year. One such offering that stands out in York … Continue reading The Mason Dixon Fair is Now in Full Swing!
Folks in Vienna, Virginia, certainly know how to “live it up” every Memorial Day Weekend. For more than four decades, the community has been carrying on a beloved time-tested annual tradition via their ViVa! Vienna festival. Stronger and more enduring now than ever before, the family-friendly fun times and follies return to the scene this … Continue reading ViVa! Vienna! A Memorial Day Weekend Tradition
If you’ve been to Washington, D.C. in the last week, then you probably know that the National Cherry Blossom Festival is now ongoing. It’s a tradition dating back to 1912, commemorating the gift of Japanese cherry trees made to the District of Columbia by none other than then-Mayor of Tokyo, Yukio Ozaki. A symbol of … Continue reading History of the National Cherry Blossom Festival