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Strawberry Festival (Troy, Ohio)
A strawberry festival is an event and celebration in many towns in North America. In most instances, areas around these towns are, or have been, deeply involved in the production and marketing of strawberries, and the festivals are usually held in late spring around the time of the strawberry harvest. Such festivals generally involve a parade and other community events and the consumption of the fruit, and may attract visitors from other places. Festivals by country United States *Arroyo Grande, California – Memorial Day weekend *Assonet, Massachusetts – Father's Day *Belleville, Michigan – National Strawberry Festival *Bellevue, Washington * Billings, Montana Strawberry Festival *Buckhannon, West Virginia – West Virginia Strawberry Festival *Wisconsin *Cabot, Arkansas *Chassell, Michigan *Crawfordsville, Indiana *Dayton, Tennessee – Tennessee Strawberry Festival (Dayton, Tennessee) *Fort Mill, South Carolina * Garden Grove, California *Humboldt, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival
A festival is an event celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, Melā, mela, or Muslim holidays, eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agriculture, agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern. Festivals often serve to fulfill specific communal purposes, especially in regard to commemoration or thanking to the gods, goddesses or saints: they are called patronal festivals. They may also provide entertainment, which was particularly important to local communities before the adven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
