Beloved Artichoke Festival Closing for Good After 65 Years

A beloved food festival is closing after 65 years.

According to SFGate, the event is the "most famous food festival" in Monterey County, California, and it's existed for more than six decades. Now it's closing "permanently" in 2025 and going forward, the newspaper reported.

It's the Monterey County Artichoke Festival, which has been attended by thousands of people each year. The popular festival once crowned "artichoke queens" and hosted celebrity chefs. In fact, in 1948, Marilyn Monroe was named California's artichoke queen...