Catoctin Colorfest
catoctin colorfest annual art craft festival thurmont maryland every year people attend making one largest festival kind east coast united state colorfest recognized one top art craft show united state sunshine artist magazine vendor participated colorfest event free attend parking cost fee festival take place second weekend october year colorfest free shuttlebus service provided get parking area event take entire year plan colorfest began nature walk would eventually become juried art craft festival walk originally organized either duncan burchard local naturalist john brown another thurmont local festivity added walk drew people year craftspeople set stand carnival ground community park invited festival first time event planned catoctin mountain tourist council help volunteer officer elected first time organise colorfest event drawing people year notable bad flood saturday according american town almost ruined event rain stopped sunday event success end beverly zienda elected president colorfest job would hold year death died breast cancer husband quoted saying practically running colorfest hospital bed november colorfest held inaugural catoctin colorfest dinner meeting craftspeople invited set stand area front thurmont middle school vendor participated colorfest festival began offer recycling bin first time president colorfest committee carol robertson took position beverly ziendas death saw covid pandemic ground cancellation th deferred colorfest became successful enough colorfest committee turned profit every year since donated proceeds event local organisation much money raised parking vendor fee used support local scholarship project given scholarship graduate catoctin high school colorfest weekend one biggest fundraising weekend many charity area colorfest inc regularly donates local guardian hose fire company frederick county public library frederick food bank frederick food bank received colorfest inc number church along thurmont community ambulance company consider colorfest biggest fundraiser year catoctin colorfest colorfest program