Cloverdale May Festival celebrates the season

As neighbors strolled into the newly refurbished College Park in Old Cloverdale on Sunday for the first May Festival — a long-abandoned tradition now given new life — it was like a Norman Rockwell scene, with folks greeting one another in a lush, green space just a block or two or up the street from their homes.

The May Day Processional arrives at College Street Park ahead of the May Queen.

The May Day Processional arrives at College Street Park ahead of the May Queen.

May Festival and the re-dedication of College Park on College Street in Old Cloverdale merged into one event. The May Festival was the creation of Emily Brown, a four-year Cloverdale resident and Selma native who brought from her old hometown — among other festivities —the traditional children’s Maypole dance and the arrival of the May Queen to lend the season and the Old Cloverdale area a sense of tradition, nostalgia and unity.

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