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The Jefferson Memorial visible through cherry blossoms across the Tidal Basin. The National Cherry Blossom Festival is a spring celebration in Washington, D.C., commemorating the March 27, 1912, gift of Japanese cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo City to the city of Washington, D.C. Ozaki gave the trees to enhance the growing friendship between the United States and Japan and also ...
The role of the state societies was to sponsor events such as a ball and to sponsor state cherry blossom princesses to participate in festival activities. That is still a primary role for the NCSS in 2009 but there is also a coordinating committee for many such events organized under the umbrella of the National Cherry Blossom Festival. Today ...
Maher has since appeared live at The Great Kids Expo [3] [4] in Chantilly, Virginia, on October 25, 2008, a live broadcast of the 2008 lighting of the National Christmas Tree, [5] on December 4, 2008, attended by President George W. Bush and over 7,000 guests, and the 2009 Cherry Blossom Festival on April 11, 2009, attended by First Lady ...
No matter the weather, the National Cherry Blossom Festival goes on, drawing more than a million visitors per year. Mayhew said, "About 45% of those are visitors. It's usually 45% to 50% of ...
Every March, Macon holds its annual International Cherry Blossom Festival—complete with food trucks, carnival rides, and concerts— to celebrate the city's 350,000 cherry trees.
The annual Cherry Blossom Festival at Branch Brook Park in Newark, New Jersey; The annual Cherry Blossom Festival in San Francisco, CA ; International Cherry Blossom Festival in Macon, GA; Hanami, a traditional Japanese custom of celebrating the beauty of flowers, especially cherry blossoms; An annual festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in ...
The Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia, [1] at Shofuso Japanese House and Garden, is an annual spring celebration based on the Japanese custom of Hanami (cherry blossom viewing). The festival, which is presented by the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia , commemorates a 1926 gift of 1,600 cherry blossom trees from ...
The International Cherry Blossom Festival is held in Macon, Georgia, every spring. Macon, known as the "Cherry Blossom Capital of the World," [ 2 ] has around 300,000–350,000 Yoshino Cherry Trees that bloom around the city in late March every year.