Visitors to a previous Delray Affair look at a Delray Beach Historical Society exhibit celebrating the Delray Affair’s start as the Gladioli Festival. Photo provided
By Christine Davis
Coinciding with the 63rd Delray Affair, the Delray Beach Historic
BOYNTON BEACH — Colleen Williams Beckner of Boynton Beach died Oct. 5 at the Hospice of Palm Beach County. She was 83.
Born Sept. 30, 1940, to Frank E. and Martha B. Williams in Noblesville, Indiana, Colleen graduated in 1959 from Noblesville High Sc
By Larry Barszewski
Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula and more than 500 art and craft exhibitors will combine for a traffic-stopping April weekend in downtown Delray Beach.
Gauff and Pegula, professional tennis players from Delray Beach and Boca Raton, resp
Crowds are expected to return by the thousands for the Delray Affair as it resumes along Atlantic Avenue. Photos provided
After a 2-year hiatus, the Delray Affair is returning — and so are the gladiolus bulbs
By Rich Pollack
For the thousands of peop
Delray Beach and Boynton Beach became the center of gladiolus growing in 1939
after a deep freeze wiped out the crop in Fort Myers.
Starting in 1947, Delray Beach began having parades during the gladiola festivals.
Lavish floats were decorated with f
Ora Sorensen created this year’s Delray Affair poster (left) and drew inspiration from the festival’s origins as South Florida’s Gladioli Festival and Fair.
By Mary Jane Fine
To say that the Delray Affair grew from the ground up but has flowered over
