JUNE 1 & 2, 2013
As summer starts to sizzle, festival season heats up in Northwest Ohio. Every year it begins the first weekend in June with one of Toledo’s oldest and most beloved neighborhood events— the 42nd Annual Historic Old West End Festival. The “OWE,” as its residents affectionately call it, continues to be an influential quarter of the City’s heritage. Throughout the weekend the OWE Festival welcomes visitors from surrounding communities to join in celebrating the neighbor neighborhood’s legacy and the creative, diverse culture of its residents. Voted by TCP readers as the Best “’Hood to grow up in” in 2012, the OWE is renowned for its charming, nationally recognized and preserved
architecture, as well as, the artistic dynamism that’s encouraged by the neighborhood’s proximity to the Toledo Museum of Art. Festivities start off Saturday morning June 1st with the 104th Anniversary of the King Wamba Carnival Parade, and the coronation of this year’s King Wamba & Queen Sancha. Other activities include the Antique Car Show, Historic House Tours, neighborhood garage sales, the Old West End 5k Run/Walk Race, a juried Art Fair adjacent to the TMA Glass Pavilion and the Scott High School Community Bash. Also during the weekend live performances and concerts will grace two stages with wine and locally brewed beer available at the popular beer garden in the arboretum.