Annual History Festival to Celebrate National First Ladies Day
The Missouri Cherry Blossom Festival will honor presidents and first ladies through their descendants and scholars. Nostalgic television and film actors will be there, too.
For more than 20 years, presidential descendants and nostalgic television and film actors have come together in the small town of Marshfield in rural southwest Missouri for a unique blending of American history and culture at the Missouri Cherry Blossom Festival.
And only recently has the festival included a daylong celebration of National First Ladies Day, which this year falls on April 25. The day is meant to honor the contributions of America’s first ladies by encouraging others to celebrate through acts of service.
New this year at the four-day event kicking off on April 23 and running through April 25, is an appearance at the 16th Annual State Dinner by Ashley Reagan, granddaughter of former President Ronald Reagan; an appearance on National Fi…
