Gingers Mass At 'Redhead Days' In North Suburb This Weekend
WBBM's Bob Roberts
(CBS) -- Redheads are usually easy to pick out in a crowd, but not in north suburban Highwood this weekend.
It is hosting the 2nd annual North American Redhead Days.
If it's red, you can find it in Highwood's Everts Park -– everything from T-shirts to Bloody Mary mix. The Bent Fork Bakery of Highwood won Saturday's "Carrot Cake Throwdown." Chicago's Redhead Piano Bar is providing the music, along with the School of Rock.
Callan Masterson, her redheaded two-year-old daughter Zella and carrot-topped father John Harvey drove three hours through the rain from Danville to attend and said it was worth it.
"Next year, we're spending the night," she said. "We're going to do this totally different. We'd come back in a heartbeat, even with the rain."
That pleases organizer Jim Stoecker. He said Saturday that in a matter of hours he talked with gingers from Michigan, Indiana, California and Oregon, all of whom thanked him for importing the festival from the Netherlands.
Events Sunday include competitions to see which family has the most redheads, which woman has the longest red locks, which gentlemen has the longest red beard and who owns the reddest pet. Famed redhead Ronald McDonald will stop by and pose for photos.
And there's a group photo, being taken by a red drone, at 2 p.m. Last year's photo captured more than 1,100 people and this year Stoecker is shooting for 3,000.
