and Crafts is held every 3rd weekend in March in the downtown area. The festival includes more than 250 fine and fun hand craft items and original art for sale on the streets of the historic downtown walking district. The festival lasts for two days. The Sailboat Regatta and Mount Dora Earth Day are held in April. The Regatta, which is hosted by the Mount Dora Yacht Club, is the oldest in the state and will be celebrating its 63rd year in 2016. Mount Dora Earth Day Celebration is a one-day event held on a Saturday around the annual international Earth Day. The event celebrates its 25th year in 2020 in Donnelly park. The Mount Dora Blueberry Festival takes place on the last weekend in April. This festival is hosted by Visit Mount Dora and is held in Donnelly Park. The free festival celebrates local Blueberry Farms as the industry takes over citrus in the farming community. It is a two-day event The Mount Dora Seafood Festival takes place in September and began in 2015. The festival includes several booths with fresh seafood, as well as beer, wine, crafters, and activities for children. The Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce holds Florida's oldest Bicycle festival annually in early October. It celebrates its 43rd year in 2017 and is three-day event. The Festival includes a variety of daily rides, ranging from 8 miles to 100 miles. Mount Dora's largest event, the Mount Dora Craft Fair, draws over 250,000 visitors every 4th weekend in October. It features more than 400 talented crafters and artists, and includes an eclectic mix of arts and crafts from sculptures to ceramics to paintings to woodworking. The Mount Dora Craft Fair was ranked the #2 Classic/Contemporary Craft Festival 2020 in America by Sunshine Artists Magazine under the organization of festival coordinator, Janet Gamache. The Mount Dora Plant and Garden Fair takes place on the second weekend in November in Donnelly Park. Growers of exotic and native FL plants from all over Florida gather to share and sell their plants to the public. It is a two-day event In fiction Literature Mount Dora is the setting for the post-apocalyptic novel Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank (1908–1964), under the fictitious name of Fort Repose. Frank lived there with his last wife. Mount Dora is one of the settings in Steve Berry's action-adventure thriller The Columbus Affair. Napoleon Hill (1883–1970), author