The event is famous for bringing the community together with a parade, a carnival, a craft show, live music, food vendors and beer.
The event is famous for bringing the community together with a parade, a carnival, a craft show, live music, food vendors and beer.
“We are celebrating our heritage of the red flannel long underwear,” said Nancy Deyman, president of the festival.
According to organizers, the festival’s origin dates back to 1936 when the country was going through one of the coldest, snowiest winters in years.
Deyman said a New York feature writer made a comment that said they were in the midst of an old-fashioned winter, with no red flannels in the whole country to go with it.
The local newspaper at the time, The Cedar Springs Clipper, answered the writer with an editorial that quickly debunked those comments.
“In New York, they were putting out on …