WTAE-TV's Michelle Wright to be Honorary Ambassador at Autumn Glory Parade

WTAE-TV’s Michelle Wright will be the Honorary Ambassador of the 42nd Annual Autumn Glory Festival’s Grand Feature Parade on Saturday, October 10. Michelle Wright is the anchor of WTAE Channel 4 Action News weekdays at 6 p.m.
 
A native of Lynchburg, Va., Wright graduated from Liberty University with a bachelor's degree in political science and a double minor in journalism and television. She arrived at WTAE in 1994 after leaving WSET in Lynchburg.
 
Wright has won three Emmy Awards, a National Headliners Award, and an Edward R. Murrow Award. She has also been honored by the Associated Press and the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasting, among other groups. Wright says the best part of her job is "meeting people and knowing the information I'm able to pass along can improve lives."
 
Wright has volunteered with many organizations, including the Leukemia Society, Big Brothers and Big Sisters, Project Bundle-Up, Race For The Cure and the Special Olympics. Wright is married with two children. Her hobbies include reading ("Angela's Ashes," Psalms, anything by Poet Laureate Billy Collins), watching movies (favorites include "The Wizard Of Oz," "Life Is Beautiful," "The Shawshank Redemption"), shopping for antiques, taking her kids out for ice cream, gardening and Pilates.
 
Autumn Glory Festival runs from October 7 – 11 in Garrett County, Maryland with a kick-off reception at Wisp Resort, two large parades, concerts, Oktoberfest celebration, the Maryland State Banjo & Fiddle band Championships, art exhibits, the Western Maryland Tournament of Bands, antique and craft shows and much more.
 
Garrett County’s annual Autumn Glory Festival landed in the international spotlight two years ago, when the popular travel website, MSN.com listed it tops among fall festivals in the world. To the delight of locals and visitors alike, Autumn Glory in Oakland, Maryland, beat out Paris’ Festival d’Automne (#5) and Munich’s Oktoberfest (#7) – in addition to a bevy of domestic celebrations, including San Francisco’s Dias De los Muertos. “Music, parades and awesome colors are at the center of this festival,” noted the site, plugging in particular the Grand Feature Parade, the Maryland State Banjo & Fiddle Championships and the Tournament of Bands.