Fireworks at the Strawberry Fest!

The Ovid Strawberry Festival is celebrating 25 years on Friday, June 19 and Saturday, June 20th.

This June residents and fans of our small town will gather to celebrate 25 years of celebrating strawberries. Now, if you think that strawberries are a small thing to center a town festival around, up in Montezuma they have a parade and all in honor of the mosquito. As one loyal Ovid resident said, "I'd rather eat the town festival theme than be eaten by it!"
Our town festival also highlights the historic buildings in the center of Ovid, known as the Three Bears. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, these three buildings of graduated size were built beginning in 1845 and represent the Greek Revival style of architecture popular throughout America in the 1800's. Walter Gable says in his article on the Three Bears,

The popularity of the Greek Revival style in the United States was partly due to its symbolic association with the democratic ideals of ancient Greece.

You can read the full article on the history of the Three Bears HERE.

Festivities begin on Friday with a block dance in the village park behind the municipal building (the pavilion you can see from the back of The Landlord's Main St. property). If you cannot attend the block dance, be assured that the music can be heard quite clearly from your own front porch if you are a resident of Lakeview Park.

Saturday's activities begin with a breakfast at the Ovid Federated Church and a flea market on the Church lawn. There will also be the yearly craft bizarre with displays from community-related organizations in the Ovid fire station on Brown Street. There will be games for the children attending the festival, as well as a Chinese auction, and a festival quilt raffle.

This year the Festival committee is pleased to announce that in honor of the 25th anniversary there will be a Fireworks display on the fireman's field (between Co Rd 139 and the school.) The committee is looking for the community's help in raising the $2500 to fund the show. Donations jars will be set up in local business to collect spare change to help make this happen. This reporter hopes that her favorite local business, (the one that keeps so many of us toasty warm throughout the winter) will put up a jar so she can contribute toward one of her favorite forms of summertime entertainment.

Hope to see you at the Strawberry Festival!