article_snippet: the three-week-long National Cherry Blossom Festival, which kicks off Friday and runs through April 12 was launched more than 20 years later .
article_snippet: the three-week-long National Cherry Blossom Festival, which kicks off Friday and runs through April 12 wasn't until 1935 that civic groups and the D.C. government came together to hold the three-week-long National Cherry Blossom Festival, which kicks off Friday and runs through April 12.
article_snippet: the three-week-long National Cherry Blossom Festival, which kicks off Friday and runs through April 12 came after smaller commemorations including a three-day celebration in 1934 and a 1927 re-enactment of the original planting of the trees by a group of Washington school children.
article_snippet: , there's a Blossom Kite Festival right in the middle of the cherry blossom festivities on March 28th.
article_snippet: the three-week-long National Cherry Blossom Festival, which kicks off Friday and runs through April 12 consists of a hot tricks showdown, learning how to make and fly kites, and there's even a kite doctor on site to repair broken kites.
highlights_snippet: The National Cherry Blossom Festival starts March 20 in Washington .
  