( KMZA )-- The Kansas Sampler Foundation has announced that Wamego will be the host for the 2014-2015 Kansas Sampler Festival.
The event is designed to provide the public a sample of what there is to see, do, hear, taste, buy, and learn in Kansas.
Foundation director Marci Penner says though Wamego will be the smallest town to ever host this event, they know that other towns in Pottawatomie County will be there to assist."
Wamego went through an 8-month process including a preliminary application, final application, site visit and interview before being designated as the ninth community to host the festival.
The only event of its kind in the Midwest, the festival will take place the first weekend of May in 2014 and 2015 in the Wamego city park, and the ballfields just to the east of the park.
The festival started as an open house for Mil and Marci Penner's first Kansas guidebook in 1990. Several places in the guidebook were invited to set up booths at the Penner Farm near Inman. The public response was so positive that the event was given a name, the Kansas Sampler Festival, and became an annual Kansas gathering.
Since then it has moved around the state every two years with stops in Pratt, Ottawa, Independence, Newton, Garden City, Concordia, and Leavenworth. Liberal will be in charge of the festival for a second year in 2013 when the festival takes place on May 4 and 5 in Light Park.
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