Cornfest ended last month with a bang. Several of them. Along with uncomfortably close bolts of lightning, rain blowing sideways and wind that threatened to take out more than a few tents.
Fortunately for the festival, the storm shut things down not too far from the planned end of the first day and organizers are still calling it a success.
Those organizers are with Camp Verde Promotions, a local nonprofit that has been the force behind Cornfest for a few years now since the Town of Camp Verde stopped its role as the primary organizer.
The group is already starting to plan for the 59th annual Fort Verde Days, a three-day event that is the community’s longest continuously running celebration.
The event, always the second weekend in October, is set this year for Oct. 9 through 11.
While the organizers are going to need all sorts of help in the coming weeks, right now they are focused on planning one of the biggest attractions and draws of the festival, the annual Fort Verde Days parade.
To read the full story, see the Wednesday, Aug. 5, edition of The Camp Verde Journal.
