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The National Cherry Festival in Traverse City : blessing of the blossoms /

Title
The National Cherry Festival in Traverse City : blessing of the blossoms / Brooks Vanderbush.
Author
Vanderbush, Brooks.
Publication
Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2014.
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Description
123 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
"The National Cherry Festival is northern Michigan's most popular event. It turns Traverse City, a beach town of thirty thousand, into a thriving city of nearly one million. Begun almost a century ago, the festival started out as a small, neighborhood affair and grew into an internationa lphenomenon that draws in visitors from all over the globe. Twist and pop a pit of Cherry Festival history with author and Traverse City native BrooksVanderbush as he recounts the festival's growth and its queens and courts, governing bodies, past personalities and other memorable stories that have made it such an essential part of this vacation paradise"--
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Contents
Foreword / Trevor Tkach -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- From log to cherry -- Cherry explosion -- Festival goes nuclear -- President arrives -- Big hair and the Arnolds -- Our modern festival -- Queen in her own words -- Town that cherry sells -- Stories -- Get thee to the festival? -- Index -- About the author.
ISBN
  • 9781626194267
  • 1626194262
LCCN
2014023432
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library