Woollybear Festival
woollybear festival held every fall downtown vermilion ohio lake erie oneday family event began feature woolly bear costume contest child even pet dressed various rendition woolly bear caterpillar festival held every year around october sunday cleveland brown either away game playing touted largest oneday festival ohio attendance festival brainchild dick goddard longtime weatherman cleveland wjwtv woolly bear caterpillar similarly celebrated mythical association winter forecasting caterpillar egg hatch fall folklore suggests severity upcoming winter gauged observing amount black versus orange caterpillar band attracting spectator first year number grew estimated eighth festival quickly overwhelmed town birmingham city expressed interest organizer selected vermilion new home woollybear comedic race start vermilion police fire chief selecting woollybears race woollybears obtained vermilion chamber detail training skill said woollybears divulged participant race monitored professional tv woollybears harmed making race woollybear festival first since event inception held covid pandemic woolly worm festival similar festival held annually october banner elk north carolina