Blossom Festival Brings Family Fun on May 17
Antique cars, live bands, food trucks and more will all be part of the 12 annual Blossom Festival. Held May17 from 10-4 in the heritage Orchard and Saratoga Civic Center. The event is free and open to the public. Activities include a range of music like Dolce Dua, rock and roll with Back Pages and Silicon Valley Gulch Jazz. Artists and artisans of all kinds will be selling their wares—including wood carving, felting, hand crafted items. Organizations include the Wildlife Center, Santa Clara County Fire Safety Department, master gardeners and bee keepers. Children’s activity tables, petting zoo, and more for young children. Food trucks will offer Latin, Asian, Indian and a variety of tasty treats.
A highlight this year will be two films shown in the library at 10:30 and 1:30--- In the Maple room at 10:30 you will see a film on Hakone Gardens. In 1915 Isabel Stine, wife of businessman Oliver Stine, visited the Japan Pavilion at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco and was so enthralled she wanted to create her own Japanese garden estate. Mrs. Stine journeyed to Japan for ideas and inspiration and in 1917 landscape architects and artisans from Japan began building the Japanese garden in the foothills of Saratoga she named Hakone. With interviews, historic photographs, and scenic footage, this video tells that intriguing story of how Hakone passed through several private ownerships and was purchased by the City of Saratoga to become a beautiful public garden open to all. At 1:30 in the Maple room of the library join us for a film screening with Marilyn Messina who describes 20th century life on her family’s orchards in the in the “Valley of Heart’s Delight,” Santa Clara Valley, CA. Viewers follow five stages in fruit trees’ yearly cycle—from dormancy through harvest. Each stage relates to her family’s growth, from her grandfather’s arrival from Sicily in 1905 to their cultivation of four hundred acres in the 1960s.
First produced in 1900, this historic event ran successfully for 41 years. Come help us celebrate this tradition. Produced by the Saratoga historical Foundation and sponsored by the City of Saratoga. For more information: 408-867-4311 or www.saratogahistory.com.
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