The 2001 Long Tom Grange Daffodil Festival, Junction City Oregon

March, 2001
For 28 years, residents on Ferguson Road in Junction City have planted daffodils along the roadside, their numbers increasing with each passing year.
For almost as many years, the third Sunday in March, visitors from Springfield, Eugene, and Corvallis to Harrisburg have celebrated spring by taking the "Daffodil Drive" along the eight-mile stretch and stopping by Long Tom Grange where the members served homemade cinnamon rolls with coffee and punch. They decorated the Hall with flowers and hand-made quilts, and raffled off a daffodil quilt.

Last year Grange members decided to extend the one-day drive into a two-day Festival -
complete with demonstrations, craft booths, and displays. It proved to be a phenomenal success; so in 2001 they held the second Annual Daffodil Festival.
This March it was unseasonably dry and sunny...until the weekend of the Festival when we got our first measurable rain! But that didn't prevent more than 10,000 daffodil lovers from making the drive and enjoying the crafts, hayrides, antique cars, llamas and alpacas, spinning and painting demonstrations, and of course...plenty of hot homemade buns!
So here are some pictures for you to enjoy of this
year's Second Annual Daffodil Festival!


The drive begins at Territorial Drive and goes down Ferguson and ends in the foothills.

This young daffodil fan looks like he's in training to become one himself in his bright yellow slicker!	At the Grange entrance there were wonderful bouquets for sale of all kinds of spring flowers - including daffodils!

Alpacas, llamas, and miniature rams were one of the most popular attractions


Wagon rides were again a very popular feature at this year's Festival. (And see...it didn't rain all the time!)	The Grange Hall was hung with lots of handmade quilts


Spinners, painters and artisans of all kinds displayed their crafts at many booths.


The classic car display is always popular, and visitors had plenty to look at!