date:2013-06-29~2013-07-06
expand the Festival to a five-day celebration. The week of July 6 was proclaimed as National Cherry Festival Week.
The National Cherry Festival officially became a week-long celebration in 1968.
The Cherry Royale Parade broke the all-time record in 1975, boasting 180 entries and attended by over 300,000 people. President Gerald Ford, a Michigan native and former U.S. Senator, led the parade as Grand Marshall.
In 1978 the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds performed for the first time. Five T-38 figh