Talk:Woollybear Festival

Latest comment: 14 years ago by Mapsax in topic Contested content

Contested content edit

The following was moved from the Dick Goddard article:

The Woollybear Festivals were originally held in Birmingham, Ohio, from 1973 to 1980. After a local church minister in Birmingham got tired of the crowds Dick Goddard wanted the festival the same weekend the Harvast Festival that has been going on a lot longer. Goddard then moved his festival elsewhere, Goddard asked WJW-TV (known at the time as WJKW-TV) colleague Neil Zurcher, who did a travel segment on the station's newscasts called "One Tank Trips", to scout towns in northeast Ohio. In 1981, Vermilion, Ohio was picked, and the Woollybear Festival has continued annually there, in late September or early October. There are marching bands from high schools across northeast Ohio and some 150,000 people come into Vermilion for this event.

Can anyone verify any of that? (Even if so, it should be in this article and not in the Dick Goddard one.) Mapsax (talk) 02:13, 20 April 2010 (UTC)Reply