Dexter Summer Festival 2025 Brings Two Days of Household Enjoyable

The Dexter Summer Festival returns August 9–10 with household actions, stay music, meals, video games, and artisans from throughout Michigan, persevering with a practice that started many years in the past.

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The Dexter Summer Festival is correct across the nook, and the occasion has come a great distance from its modest beginnings.

The Dexter Summer Festival, previously Dexter Daze, returns on August 8 & 9, 2025, however its roots stretch far again nearly so long as there was a Dexter, MI.

In the many years earlier than 1972, Dexter’s summer time celebration centered on a sidewalk sale, which was dubbed “Sidewalk Days.” Merchants displayed their items at particular costs in entrance of their shops to attract folks into city. They had been seeking to clear their summer time stock to make room for fall and winter issues. People gathered within the village for the enjoyable, and the annual occasion grew because the village grew.

In 1972, the Dexter Chamber of Commerce expanded the annual sidewalk sale into “Discover Dexter Days” to advertise native companies and draw guests from the encompassing communities on a bigger scale. The occasion was held on the primary weekend in August that 12 months, and actions included old-time motion pictures, a pie-baking contest, sq. dancing, a parade, and way more.

A few years later, in 1974, the pageant was vastly enlarged for the sesquicentennial celebration of Dexter’s first settlement. The title was shortened to “Dexter Daze.”

In the half-century since then, Dexter’s inhabitants has nearly tripled. The authentic committee of some has develop into a brand new era of hard-working and civic-minded folks with the Chamber of Commerce devoted to preserving their neighborhood’s core values.

For 2024, the celebratory gathering had one other title change. Organizers retired the colloquial “Dexter Daze,” choosing the extra formal “Dexter Summer Festival.” But it doesn’t matter what you name it, the two-day occasion is the excessive level of town’s summer time.

Supported not solely by native companies but additionally by many people, the pageant displays the neighborhood’s dedication to offering basic summer time enjoyable with actions, video games, crafts, meals, and stay music for all ages. It additionally attracts artisans from throughout Michigan, providing a wide array of distinctive works to discover and buy.

But as a lot as Dexter Daze has to supply, the most important delight is likely to be the fun of passing a pal or two for a fast “catching-up” on the sidewalk or park grass, telephones down, face-to-face.

You know, similar to the nice ol’ days.

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