Time for Fun at the Sherwood Robin Hood Festival

It's time for fun at the Sherwood Oregon Robin Hood Festival.

Every year during the third weekend of July, Sherwood Oregon celebrates a piece of our towns legondary history during the annual Robin Hood Festival. A fun filled event that's been held every single year since 1952.

This weekend, we invite you to come enjoy the fun, food, music, dancing, arts, crafts, shopping, contests and festival Parade. The fun starts tomorrow, Friday, July 17th with a full schedule on Saturday - See the Robin Hood event schedule here.

It's going to be a beautiful weekend and a great way to discover Sherwood living. While you're out & about enjoying the festival, come see The Gardner Team (Sherwood's Leading Realtors) on Saturday at the John L. Scott Real Estate booth... We have something for ya!

If you'd like to know more about living in or around the "Sherwood Forest" we welcome the opportunity to share our experience with you.

Jason & Amber Gardner | 971.832.1234 | The Sherwood Realtors

Sherwood Oregon's Robin Hood Story ~ Courtesy of robinhoodfestival.com

The Robin Hood Legend belongs to the downtrodden. The businessmen of Sherwood Oregon U.S.A. were feeling downtrodden in the years immediately following World War II. The town's economy was drying up. The main road didn't go through town. There was a three way crossing on Highway 99 called Six Corners.

It was starting to draw business away from the historic core. But the romantic little town of Sherwood refused to give up. Inspired by the recent re-release of the 1938 Robin Hood classic, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Sherwood's town-fathers took the Legend and made it the most successful public relations venture in the town's history.

If you ask a Sherwood senior citizen to name the person who invented the Sherwood Oregon Robin Hood Festival, the answer will invariably be, "I did!" It seems everybody invented it all at once. One story we heard is typical. Floyd Johnson owned the newspaper. While Floyd still lived in Tigard, he used to ride the bus to Six Corners, get off the bus, and walk the mile or so to his printing office in Sherwood.

Each day the bus driver would shout "Sherwood." Johnson would ring the bell to get off. Someone would look around and shout, "Robin Hood?" The quip always got a laugh. It also gave Floyd something to think about during those long walks into town. The Robin Hood icon is free. It excites people around the world. He floated the idea of having a Robin Hood Festival in his newspaper, the "Sherwood Valley News." A crew of World War II veterans (Elks and Kiwanis mostly) rolled up their sleeves and dyed their long johns green and showed up at movie houses wherever the Robin Hood movie was showing. The crowds enjoyed seeing them so much that they were invited back. Not only that. They were asked to appear at small town festivals all around Portland.

The rest is history!