The event will take place at Union Square Park in Washington, D.C.

For 33 years, the International Dairy Foods Association has been having an ice cream arty on Capitol Hill. The most recent edition was on June 18.

Tillamook County, Ore., the so-called "land of cheese, trees and ocean breeze" is a magical place, a bit of Brigadoon in the Pacific Northwest, if you will (although you don't have to wait every 100 years to visit the place). I waited 56 years to make my first visit, and was instantly smitten by the region's beauty and the citizenry's friendliness.