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Flower Power
Written By: Tracy Foor, Highlands Historical Society | Issue: July 2024
It’s an entirely new level of Flower Power when Highlands Historical Society stages the 14th Annual Dazzling Dahlia Festival. For more information, visit highlandshistory.com.
We at the Highlands Historical Society have planned an end-of-August/early September celebration of the majestic dahlia with its kaleidoscopic array of colors and patterns and sizes.
We’ll launch the fun with our Elevated Woodstock Party, set for 5:00 to 8:00 P.M. Tuesday, August 27.
This far out party will be co-hosted by HHS and the Davis Family Vineyards at High Country Wine and Provisions and Highlands Smokehouse.
Dust off your 60’s clothes, get your groovy on and come experience an elevated Woodstock in Highlands as we lean into Flower Power with music, libations, good food, an art show, auction and other fun surprises.
Then on Thursday, September 5, it’s the Flower Power Poster Party at The Bascom.
Join us as we celebrate Dazzling Dahlia’s 2024 poster contest winner, Marina Tkach, and our youth winner, Nariah Godfrey, and their beautiful expressions of Flower Power. Cocktails and appetizers will be served and all are invited to this complimentary party co-hosted by the Bascom.
Get ready to roll – from 8:00 A.M. to Noon Friday, September 6, we’re hosting the Dahlia Depot at Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park. Calling all flower growers! Drop off your dahlias and other flowers at our tent in the park for use in the vignettes and arrangements to be sold. Your help and flowers are needed! We can use flowers of any type and greenery. All of the flowers used by the vignette designers are donated, so please bring as many as you can.
Then, from 1:00 to 4:00 P.M. on Friday, September 6, and Saturday, September 7, from 10:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., it’s the Single Bloom Competition at The Bascom. Costs to enter are: $5 for one bloom, $10 for three blooms or $20 for up to eight blooms.
On Saturday, September 7, it’s the Dazzling Dahlia Festival!
Flower Power will be in full bloom as Highlands is draped in dazzling floral vignettes. There is no charge to enter the vignette competition or view the stunning arrangements throughout town. Judging will occur online.
We’ll cap the fun with the Flower Power Concert Saturday, 6:00 to 9:00 P.M. in Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park. Steel Toe Stiletto will get everybody dancing with their groovy sound and stage show. Co-hosted by HHS and the Dahliabolicals, this concert is a gift to the Highlands community.
