Sequim’s Irrigation Festival royalty, pictured from left, princess Ellie Turner, queen Isabella Williams, princess Lauren Willis, and princess Katherine Gould, returned to the event’s roots by visiting an irrigation headgate last week for a photo-op.

According to its website, the oldest continuing festival’s events honor the work of D.R. “Crazy Callen and four colleagues after they developed irrigation ditches that flowed from the Dungeness River to the area’s prairie. The first headgate was lifted May 1, 1985, festival organizers said, and the next year the festival began on Callen’s farm.

The 127th-annual Sequim Irrigation Festival, themed “Our Little Piece of Heaven,” runs May 6-15 in person, including the Crazy Callen weekend and Grand Finale Weekend. For more information about the festival, see irrigationfestival.com.