ChelseaMich.com has printed about 2,000 visitor’s guides and distributed them throughout the city.
Included is a very cool map and a month by month reminder of the wonderful things that take place on an annual basis in and around Chelsea.
So, as you are populating your 2015 calendars with events, please add in what’s below and plan to take part in your favorites and explore some that perhaps you haven’t experienced.
Plus, you can schedule a tour here through Visitic, “customized agendas, fit for visitors and locals alike, which are created on the ‘Visit’ section of the ChelseaMich.com website.” Included are tours of Jiffy Mixes and Ugly Dog Distillery.
Included in the month by month annual events are:
- February: the American Legion Winter Carnival that takes place the first full weekend of the month and the Chocolate Extravaganza that takes place on Feb. 7 downtown.
- March: the Maple Festival
- April: the Spring Expo and the Midwest Literary Walk
- May: the two Farmers Markets open and the Chelsea Area Garden Club holds its annual plant sale, this year on May 9
- June: vintage baseball begins on June 7 and has another game on June 20, Sounds and Sights on Thursday Nights kicks off its summer-long run, local painters hold their Chelsea Painters Fair and the Waterloo Farm Museum holds its Log Cabin Weekend.
- July: the Sounds and Sights Festival takes center stage downtown along with the Chelsea Art Market.
- August: the Chelsea Community Fair and fair parade
- October: the Ghoultide Gathering, Pioneer Day at the Waterloo Farm Museum and grounds, Cranes, Colors and Cabernet
- November: Wine, Women and Shopping
- December: Hometown Holiday and the Light Parade
