Honfest 2012 - June 9-10, 2012
By June Piper-Brandon, Creating Generational Wealth Through Homeownership
(Coldwell Banker Realty)
Honfest 2012 - June 9-10, 2012 Honfest Pagent 2009 It's that time of year when people all over venture to Baltimore's Hampden neighborhood. Folks arrive costumed in an assorted grab bag of Sixties-era garb, making the entire event into one hugely entertaining costume party. Women of all ages and sizes wear vintage spandex pants, heavily applied blue eye shadow, cat eye glasses and any item of clothing or accessory that has a leopard print and, most importantly, outrageous beehive hairdos that are teased as high as the sky and supported with volumes of hair spray. The event came to be in 1994 as a celebration of all things "Bawlmer"!! This festival covers four city blocks on 36th Street (The Avenue) in the neighborhood of Hampden. Hampden is a revered old-style Baltimore neighborhood, ...
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