Holland: The Tulip Town

On April 26, 1927, Lida Rogers, a Holland High School biology teacher, suggested an idea to members of the Holland, Michigan Women's Literary Club. The idea was that the city present a Tulip Day every spring. Two years later, on May 18, 1929, after scores of visitors viewed more than 100,000 tulips along Holland's curbs, Tulip Time became an annual event.

The 1930 Holland Evening Sentinel banner headline read: Tulip Reigns as Queen of City. Throughout the decade, motion picture and radio per...