Tulip Festival (Albany, New York)
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The Tulip Festival is held in Albany, New York every spring at Washington Park. Each year, the event lasts for a weekend and coincides with Mother's Day.
History
The festival originated as a result of Albany becoming sister-cities with Nijmegen in the Netherlands following World War II. In gratitude, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands sent 2,000 flower bulbs to Albany. On July 1, 1948, Albany's Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd got a city ordinance passed declaring the tulip as the city's official flower. In addition, he sent a request to Queen Wilhelmina to name a varietyof the flower as Albany's tulip. On July 11, 1948, her reply was "Her Majesty gladly accepts the invitation to designate a tulip as the official flower of Albany." She picked the variety "Orange Wonder", a slow-growing and relatively rare 18-inch tall tulip that is orange-shaded with a scarlet toward the center.
The first Tulip Festival was celebrated the following year on May 14, 1949, with opening ceremonies still carried on today as tradition, such as the sweeping of State Street and the crowning of the Tulip Queen.
Events and ceremonies
The festival commences with the ceremonial scrubbing of State Street by students in traditional Dutch dress.
Each year, the Tulip Queen is crowned as part of the event. The Tulip Queen acts as an ambassador for Albany for the following year.
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