In April 2013, we sent a blind email to the garden club of Milton-Freewater, OR asking if they would meet with us. One month later, we were walking into a road-side restaurant to meet a tableful of women who were waiting there for us. They brought us corsages, and over lunch we got their individual stories…
From there we went on to discover Milton-Freewater in these ways:
And did we mention the Muddy Frogwater Festival? In 1971 the city manager hired a branding consultant– who recommended that the town brand itself with frogs. There are lots of different opinions amongst town members about whether that was a good or bad idea! Here is a frog photo gallery…
We made a visit during the Cinco de Mayo 2014 festival– here are some of the pictures from that trip:
Show Week in Milton-Freewater!