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Winterlude, or Bal de Neige, is a three week long festival that takes place in the National Capital Region of Canada during the month of February. The festival began in 1979 as a way to celebrate Canada’s northern climate and hosts a variety of winter-themed activities. It includes athletic events like ice skating and a winter triathlon, a winter sculpture playground and crafts, as well as ice-carving competitions and musical performances.

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Wintersköl is an annual winter festival that has been held in Aspen, Colorado since 1951. Wintersköl was originally created by Jack DePagter, a local Aspen bartender and lodge owner, to attract tourists to the area during Aspen’s slow post-holiday season. Celebrating Aspen’s unique Nordic lifestyle, Wintersköl takes place over a four-day period in January. Early Wintersköl festivals were pretty wild, with costumed skiers, rooftop pool diving, and snowmobile drag races down Aspen’s main street. The festival has morphed into a popular, family-friendly event that includes mountain bike races, live music, theater, comedy shows, fireworks, and even a canine fashion show.

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The annual Wharf to Wharf Race has been an event in Northern California since 1973 and it is held on the fourth Sunday in July each year. Runners from all over the world come to California to run in the six-mile race from the wharf in Santa Cruz to the wharf in Capitola along the coast. It is limited to 16,000 runners and sells out months in advance. The race has been put together by a non-profit called Wharf to Wharf Race Inc. which has raised millions of dollars for Santa Cruz County youth sports programs.

The Wharf to Wharf Race features live entertainment called the Roadshow. They present over 50 bands, dancers, singers, and other performers along the race route to provide a fun atmosphere for all the participants.

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The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts broke ground on the site of their new building for the museum in April of 1991. This building included an auditorium, a library, studios, classrooms, archive storage, and galleries and it was designed by Robert A.M. Stern, an architect from New York. Festivities were held to celebrate the building's construction.

Norman Rockwell was an American artist and author who was most famous for his paintings of American culture and his cover illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post magazine and Boys' Life magazine. The museum in his name holds the largest collection of his art in the world.

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The Washougal “Pow-Wow” was an annual rodeo held in Washougal, Washington featuring 5 performers who were paid $200 for each even they participated in. The event was hosted by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, which was established in 1936 and continues to host rodeos nationwide. The city of Washougal continues to host rodeos each July including Miss Vancouver Rodeo Queen and the Fourth of July Rodeo.

“Pow-Wow” is a term that has historically been appropriated by popular culture as a colloquial term for any gathering or event, in this case a large-scale rodeo, but the term and events associated with it hold special meaning to the First Nations community and use should be limited to describing tribal organized events.

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The March of Dimes Foundation has a walkathon event every year with over 1000 communities participating across the United States. The first walkathon took place in 1970 and was the first charitable walking event to take place in the country. March of Dimes is a non-profit organization founded by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938. It was first known as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis which worked to combat polio. The organization grew, after funding the polio vaccine, to include work on preventing birth defects and infant mortality as well as funding research to prevent premature birth. 

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The 1995 African Film Festival at Columbia College was directed by Alice Stephens and premiered in April of that year. The film festival was titled "Visions of Africa" and featured 16 films. One of the films entitled “Black Girl” is a French-speaking film that follows a young nanny in a French household as she experiences harsh treatment through service. The film festival was a revolutionary collection that introduced African films to the United States population; only curated picks from the genre had been available to the public prior to the festival and many of the films shown had never been available on video or home entertainment.

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Valleyfair Family Amusement Park opened in 1976 in Shakopee, Minnesota. In 1978, Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, acquired Valleyfair, which allowed for accelerated park expansion. Currently, it is the largest amusement park in the upper Midwest with over 75 rides on 90 acres, including a Soak City Water Park and Planet Snoopy. Valleyfair also hosts corporate events like Family Fun Days for local companies. Events like these let employees bring their families to the park as guests of their employer. Sperry-UNIVAC was a computer division created when Remington Rand merged with the Sperry Corporation in 1955. For three decades, computer-related companies and their spinoffs boosted the Minnesota economy. Sperry dropped the UNIVAC name in 1984.

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Since 2004, Uncle Jon’s Music has been an award winning, family owned and operated, musical instrument store and service center in Westmont, Illinois. They host an annual customer appreciation party each year with live music, kids activities, raffles, and free hot dogs.