(Orange City) — Its tulip time again in Orange City as the Sioux County town celebrates 75 years of its Dutch heritage. The annual Tulip Festival begins Thursday and continues through Saturday. Juliana Pennings serves as the Tulip Festival Coordinator and she says the community is excited to celebrate the milestone.
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Speaking of those wooden shoes, that is one of the major attractions during the festival. Visitors have the opportunity to see how a wooden block is shaped and carved into a shoe. Pennings says this year the festival has created a new place to view the carving of the wooden shoes.
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The Tulip Festival coordinator says the festival actually started as a flower show for Orange City, then evolved to how we now know it. Since the festival is based on tulips, the Dutch national flower, will visitors have the opportunity to see the popular flower in full bloom?
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