On Tue, 10 Feb 1998 StahlfeldE at aol.com wrote:

>
> Vashon Island has a Strawberry festival the weekend after the Fourth of July,
> to celebrate the island's strawberry farming. However, they don't grow
> strawberries on Vashon anymore, and it's hard to find fresh strawberries
> there. Guess they only celebrate their history of farming strawberries
> (besides having a lot of fun on what is usually the first hot weekend of
> summer).

Traverse City, Michigan [self-proclaimed Cherry Capitol of the World] got
some bad pub this year because for the annual Cherry Festival, they flew
in cherries from Washington State, and apparently they've been doing it
that way for years. The local cherry harvest in Michigan comes weeks
*after* the festival by a few weeks. But the fourth of July is a nice
time to have a parade, I guess, so the Chamber of Commerce scheduled the
festival then.

Chris Hill
Everett, WA and sometimes Traverse City, MI
cehill at u.washington.edu