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Ypsilanti Heritage Festival
The Ypsilanti Heritage Festival is a festival in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Held each year on a late-August weekend, the festival sprawls across Frog Island Park, Riverside Park, Depot Town, and downtown Ypsilanti. The festival includes events such as a parade, vintage base ball, a bed race, a hot dog eating contest, a rubber duck race, and a spoof of the Woodward Dream Cruise called the "Nightmare Cruise".
==History==
The festival was first held on Saturday, July 15, 1978, "from noon 'til nightfall".〔 The sidewalks and streets in Depot Town had just been re-paved, and the Depot Town Association held a "Sidewalk Celebration". The poster advertised a ''noon sidewalk promenade led by the Honorable George Goodman "Hizzoner" the mayor of Ypsilanti'' and ''exciting ribbon cutting ceremonies, dedications and plain or fancy walkin''. The Sidewalk Celebration was such a success that a decision was made to repeat the event, to be known as the "Ypsilanti Yesteryear Heritage Festival".〔
According to other reports, a motivating factor was the desire to establish a historic district in Ypsilanti, to prevent the city from replacing historic buildings on North Huron Street and in Depot Town with new construction. A group of Ypsilantians applied to the state for funding to publish a guidebook to the city's historic homes, and were told that no money was available for that purpose, but that there was funding available to stage a festival. A $15,000 grant from the state helped to fund the 1979 Ypsilanti Yesteryear Heritage Festival.
In 1979, the festival drew 50,000 attendees,〔 continued to grow quickly in subsequent years, and the name was soon shortened to the present name. By the mid-1980s the festival was attracting attention from non-local newspapers — a June 1985 edition of the Toledo Blade referred to it as an "Old time circus, arts and crafts, and historic home tour" — and later that decade the festival was drawing more than 250,000 attendees a year, though attendance subsequently declined, and in recent years the festival has drawn about 100,000 attendees.〔
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