Download or read book The National Cherry Festival in Traverse City: Blessing of the Blossoms written by Brooks Vanderbush and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Cherry Festival is northern Michigan's most popular event. It turns Traverse City, a beach town of thirty thousand, into a thriving city of nearly one million. Begun almost a century ago, the festival started out as a small, neighborhood affair and grew into an international phenomenon that draws in visitors from all over the globe. Twist and pop a pit of Cherry Festival history with author and Traverse City native Brooks Vanderbush as he recounts the festival's growth and its queens and courts, governing bodies, past personalities and other memorable stories that have made it such an essential part of this vacation paradise.