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EPCOT Lost Its Off-Season, and the Festivals Started to Blur Together
I still plan trips around these festivals. I just started to notice they'd begun to feel like the same event…
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EPCOT's Festival Season
A six-part series on EPCOT’s four annual festivals and the Candlelight Processional.
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EPCOT Lost Its Off-Season, and the Festivals Started to Blur Together
I still plan trips around these festivals. I just started to notice they'd begun to feel like the same event…
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Festival of the Arts Is the One About the Artists, and That Is Why It Still Feels Like Itself
Arts is too new to have a 'used to be.' What it has is the artists, and the one I…
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Flower and Garden Is Still Beautiful. It Is Also the One I Miss Most.
The topiaries are still there and the park still looks its best. But the festival drifted from a garden you…
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Food and Wine Got Enormous, and Somewhere in Getting Enormous It Lost the Plot
I still do the marketplaces every fall. But Food and Wine is the clearest case of the thing this series…
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The Concerts Are Where EPCOT Still Surprises You, and Where the Season Gets Personal
The concerts are the one part of the festival that never turned into a booth. And for me, one name…
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The Festival of the Holidays Kept Its Soul, Because It Trades on Meaning Instead of Volume
It has the booths too. But it also has the storytellers, and they still land.
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The Candlelight Processional Never Changed, and That Is Exactly Why It Still Undoes Me
The one thing at EPCOT I never miss, and the one thing that, after all these years, hasn't lost a…