.......BEFORE THERE WERE T-SHIRTS .... THERE WERE DRAGONS!

In the early years of the festival there were no T-shirts.   As the attendance at the festival began to grow, the number of volunteer booth workers had to grow.    It became confusing when we attempted to locate our adult workers since there were so many adults accompanying and assisting their own children.  Anne Duncan, was Arts and Crafts Chairman when our first red T-shirts were used.

This first T-shirt was not exactly what we had in mind for our "official T-shirt" to represent the Children's Festival .  The cute dragon was one selected from a rack of designs which could be purchased and printed at ARTY SHIRTS in downtown Medford.  The "ASK PAT" that you see here was only on my personal t-shirt and was a joke Anne Duncan, Arts & Crafts Chairperson that year played on me!  I could not understand why people continued to ask me questions!

From this point on you will see the progression and digression of Fred's persona as he has developed through the years.