Day of activities set for annual Marigold Festival

  • Miss Marigold — Roma Ellenberg, a 2021 Oglethorpe County High School graduate — rides in the Marigold Festival parade last year. This year’s festival is scheduled for Pittard Park on Saturday, May 13. (JACK CASEY/THE OGLETHORPE ECHO)
    Miss Marigold — Roma Ellenberg, a 2021 Oglethorpe County High School graduate — rides in the Marigold Festival parade last year. This year’s festival is scheduled for Pittard Park on Saturday, May 13. (JACK CASEY/THE OGLETHORPE ECHO)

    Winterville Marigold Festival organizers always make sure the event lives up to its name.

     

    “We start planting (the marigolds) in April,” said Mary Barrett Yancey, the Festival Board of Directors s…