The Old Manse Fall Festival, Concord, MA
Sunday, October 12th, 2008Our big gig this week was The Fall Festival at the Old Manse in Concord, MA. It was a Saturday gig, first time they’ve held it, so who knew what was going to happen. As I mentioned in my previous blog entry, I thought Joni was a health department official looking to shake us down out at our Framingham location when she courted us to make an appearance.
The significance of The Old Manse is that it’s located next to the Old North Bridge which was the location of the start of the Revolutionary War. Velma has more details in the video. Wadda ya know, another New England event with people dressed up in period costumes! It’s almost like us Yankees normally dress like this.
I didn’t realize that buses of tourists would be pulling up and dumping loads of foreigners amongst our midst. (Many were disappointed that we weren’t selling corn on the cob, boiled right in a kettle. Jeez.) Who knew there were that many people interested in a look-a-like bridge with only rock walls and trees to see. There seemed to be many British tourists coming through. I wonder if they were thinking, “Damn, if only our soldiers kicked their asses back then, this could’ve still been OURS.”
Back at the Framingham Farmers Market this week, we crossed paths with Robert McCarthy and Heather Kent of Castle Kettle Corn in Oregon. They had sent me an email a couple of months ago saying they loved this site and had all sort of stories to tell, then never really told them – until now. They had some fascinating things to say about popping in Mexico and how they managed to pull it off. They were doing something like our Florida trip, pop some of the time and enjoy the rest of the time. I guess they’ll be giving me updates as they go along and hopefully I’ll be posting them here. Here’s a video of them popping at the Olympic Trials and at the San Francisco Summer of Love 40th Anniversary.
