A festival where the season or aspects of a season is/are emphasized.
Brite Winter is a festival that embraces winter with outdoor entertainment, art installations, winter games and more. 2026 DATE: February 21, 2026Location: Waterloo Arts DistrictCleveland, OH 44110Website: https://www.britewinter.com/ **** This post documents my experience on February 20, 2016. You can read my earlier reviews of the Brite Winter Festival. Click … Read more
This post documents my experience on October 11, 2014. Although the playground in Hardesty Park seemed the same… …the pumpkin border marking the area… …made it clear that DeBord’s Halloween Festival was taking place. And within that pumpkin border was Halloween decor… …along the fields… …hanging from the trees… …and … Read more
This post documents my experience on October 11, 2014. Not only was downtown Medina decorated for Halloween with pumpkins… …and plenty of scarecrows… …but they were also celebrating a Halloween Harvest Festival… …right in the heart of the square. With some different events on each of the two days… …I … Read more
The Woollybear Festival, created by Cleveland meteorologist Dick Goddard, celebrates the Woolly Bear caterpillar, which is said to foretell the severity of the upcoming winter by its orange-brown stripe. This one-day festival takes place in downtown Vermilion and has an attendance of over 100 thousand festival goers each year. 2025 … Read more
This post documents my experience on September 27, 2014. Author’s Note: I last reviewed this festival in 2010. After a long festival-hopping day, I arrived in time to experience the musical entertainment, but came too late for the vendors. This year, I seemed to arrive in time for the vendors, … Read more
Old Worthington Market Day is a one-day festival in downtown Worthington that features over 150 arts and crafts vendors. 2026 DATE: September 26, 2026Location: Downtown WorthingtonWebsite: https://business.worthingtonchamber.org/communitycalendar/Details/old-worthington-market-day-1633783?sourceTypeId=Website**** This post documents my experience on September 13, 2014. Even with the unseasonably chilly weather in downtown Worthington… …plenty of people still came … Read more
This post documents my experience on September 7, 2014. In Avon’s French Creek District… …clusters of booths were set up both along Detroit Road… …and in hidden pockets only a short distance away… …to celebrate the Fall into Avon Festival. Signs helped people find festival attractions… …which included a large … Read more
This post documents my experience on May 17, 2014. Down in the heart of Delta Park… …festival goers purchased plants for their yards and gardens (Lemle’s)… …through the offerings found at the 2nd annual Green Thumb Festival. And while there were plenty of plants found in the potted variety (Cub … Read more
This post documents my experience on October 6, 2013. In Huron’s Osborn Park (home of the most awesome playground set I have ever seen)… …a community fall festival was taking place… …called Harvest Happenings. Originally, the festival was a tractor show put on by the Firelands Pioneer Power Association… …and … Read more