World’s Biggest Pumpkins Howard Dill of Nova Scotia is given credit for starting the giant pumpkin craze. According to worldsbiggestpumpkins.com, he has won the Guiness title for world’s largest pumpkin four times. He also developed Dill’s Atlantic Giant Pumpkin Seeds. World’s Fastest Pumpkin? This pumpkin carriage was made by Kenny Tetrault at Creaturemankt.com. Windsor, Nova [...]
St. Susanna’s 2010 Family End of Summer Festival The St. Susanna Catholic Church, in Mason Ohio, holds an annual End of Summer Festival featuring the Mason Comet Skipper Jump Rope Team, Magician Tom Bemmes, and the Big Juicy Ham Band – not to mention carnival rides and bingo. The festival is September 10 – 12 [...]
August 19th is Potato Day Just when I’ve finished celebrating Sneak Some Zucchini On Your Neighbor’s Porch day (August 8), I realized that Potato Day is right around the corner on August 19th. I had a lot of fun celebrating SSZOYNP (see above) day this year because it was my first year with a vegetable [...]
Concession Obsession The second part in a continuing feature on my favorite concession food: foods you can buy from concession trailers, carts, or counters. I can’t walk by a street vendor or mobile kitchen, without buying a snack. <<previous Concession Obsession: History of the Hot Dog Cart Funnel Cake Photo: fantes.com Funnel cakes are made [...]
Nederland, Colorado If you’re in Colorado in early March, you should stop by Nederland. It’s about half an hour away from Boulder and between March 5 – 7 they are celebrating “Frozen Dead Guy Days”. Frozen Dead Guy Days is a festival held in honor of Grandpa Bredo – a dead man who has been [...]
