The Tulip Time Festival is celebrated to promote and commemorate Pella’s Dutch heritage. In 1927, Lida Rogers who was a biology teacher of Holland High School insisted that Holland should adapt the tulip as its flower due to the city’s close connection with the Netherlands. Since then the Tulip Time Festival is celebrated. It is celebrated in mid-May mainly in Holland, Michigan and Belle Plaine, Kansas in the United States.

This festival is held in many cities of the Unites States that were founded or largely dwelled by Dutch settlers. Each year, this traditional Albany event welcomes spring with thousand varieties of tulips blooming in multiple colors.It is a three day that showcases:

• A Dutch Market
• Wooden shoe costumed dancers
• Wooden shoe carving demonstrations
• Various shows
• A Craft fair
• Concerts
• Three parades