Tulip Time Queen Named In Pella Chronicle 1966
The April 2 Chronicle announced Leonora Gaass as Tulip Queen with a royal court including Virginia Van Gorp and Martha Intveld. The article notes her lineage from Rev. Henry Scholte and outlines plans for a historical museum display and Tulip Time events May 12 to 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan Kuyper
Leonora Gaass
Virginia van Gorp
Betty Lankelma
Mary Louise le Cocq
Ruth Heerema
Martha Intveld
Janet Klyn
Betty Liggett
Margaret Vande Kieft
Pauline Langerak
Marguerite Visser
Queen
van Sitterts
Chronicle
George G. Gaass
Central
Pella
Miss Gaass
Henry P. Scholte
Why Wyatt Earp Choice Promotes Pella Tourism History
A Pella Historical Society plan selects the Wyatt Earp era area for a large scale restoration tying to Dutch heritage. The project aims to attract tourists with a mid 1800s town setting around the Earp home and adjacent properties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wild West
Pella
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber-Dutch
Wyatt Earp
Historical Society
Iowa
Earp
Tyee
Ersa
Pella Editor Letters Question Dutch Heritage and Earp Project
Reader asks if Pella intends a Dutch Wild West fusion and questions Wyatt Earp links in the Earp house tour. He urges a clear restoration focus on 19th century Pella streets, tulip plantings, and the Holland heritage without mixing in frontier Wild West imagery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orange City
Iowa
Earp House
R.L. den Adel University of Minors
Earp
Tulip Time Queen Nominations Close in Pella 1936
The Tulip Time festival in Pella invites a young lady aged 16 to 21 with a Pella address to be honored as Tulip Queen. A Tulip Time benefit banquet was held and a caution was issued to not step on tulip beds as many sprouts were still tender. Nominations for Tulip Queen closed by April 2, marking the first year with a large tulip display since 1935.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earp
Pella
Zee
Holland
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Tulip Time
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H. E. Ver Ploegh
Beautiful Land
Tutp Time
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Voice of the Pub
Vella Chronicle
Jows Dear
Petts
West
Michigan
Scholte
F.S.H
Iowa Press Association
Pella Publishing
Ing. Marion de Zwarte
Dear Sadler
Fred Hawker Merle Pratt
Adler
Marion
Mahaska
Jasper
The
United States
See
Cash & Carry
South Pella
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