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Written by Zach Jacobson
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Wednesday, 12 July 2006 |
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 Not many festivals want you to think their event is the pits.
Not so in Loveland this weekend. A half-block of the city will be cornered off to honor a small part of the community’s history — cherries. You read that right: those delightfully sweet morsels of fruit have a history in Loveland, and they’ll be stuffed into hundreds of pies (sans pits, of course) for the 11th annual Cherry Pie Festival.
The Loveland Museum/Gallery plays host to the event every year. This is the second year the pies will be made by Schmidt’s Olde Time Bakery, said Tom Katsimpalis, curator of interpretation for the museum.
“This year we’re ordering more than we ever have. Over 200 pies.”
Those 200 pies will feed the more than 800 people expected to attend. The festival started as a way for Loveland residents to commemorate its agricultural past, especially the cherry industry. Katsimpalis said the event also helps attract more people to the museum as well. Katsimpalis said the whole family can enjoy the festival, and it’s a great place to relax. “We really kept it quite simple,” he said.
“It’s a low-key family event with music.” The event takes place just south of the museum on 5th Street with all the cherry pie (and, yes, ice cream) anyone could ever want.
PIE, PIE, PIE
The festival is 6-9 p.m. July 15 at Peters Park, on 5th Street between Lincoln and Cleveland avenues, in Loveland.
Admission is free, but a piece of pie will run you $2 with drinks and ice cream at
50 cents each.
There will be a little history on display as well.
“There will be a small demo on antique cherry pitters,” Tom Katsimpalis said.
If pie isn’t your thing, there will also be two bands playing in Peters Park. Fat City Mardi Gras Band and Shawn Waggoner & the Tumblyweeds (yes Tumblyweeds) will be there to entertain.
MUSEUM HOURS
The Loveland Museum/Gallery, at the corner of 5th Street and Lincoln, is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays ; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Thursdays; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays; Noon-4 p.m. Sundays; closed Mondays. Call 962.2410. | Only registered users can write comments.
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