HOLLAND (WTHC-AM/FM) — Visitors to the 2018 Tulip Time Festival are making stopping and smelling — or photographing or just watching — Holland’s thousands of tulips their No. 1 priority. (See WHTC’s photo gallery.)
Mary Howard of Cincinnati arrived in Holland for the first time with her three adult daughters, Evelyn Belman and Marilyn Young, both of Cincinnati, and Madelyn Ginsberg, from Little Rock Arkansas.
They went to Centennial Park, saw Dutch dancers and joked about eating their weight with food from the street vendors.
Holland resident Sandip Charde has lived in Holland for three years and has been downtown every day since the Festival started for one reason: flowers.
“Flowers and Dutch dance. It’s really wonderful,” he said.
Park Township residents Jamie Hilldore and Ashlyn Stonick came downtown to look at tulips and take their annual photos.
Ashlyn, 11, wore a Dutch costume, “because I like to dress up.”
Marlene and Delmar Koch of Mitchell, South Dakota — home of the world’s only corn place — came to Holland on a day trip with their son, who lives in Ann Arbor. Marlene Koch said she was impressed by the tulips but absolutely loved the blossoming Bradford pear trees.
Visitors will find fraditional Dutch dance performances at Centennial Park and the Commons at Evergreen, which is hosting the Dutch Marktplaats and food court.
Trolley tours though the Tulip City and swing dance lessons at the Holland Armory, with the carnival running from 2 to 9 p.m.
