My hometown has a festival every year called The Midwest Old Threshers Reunion.  The name implies that it is simply a celebration of antique threshing machines, but its so much more.  It celebrates all steam-powered machinery – not to mention settler culture (both frontier towns and prairie log villages), fried food, small town values, pretend [...]

Having arrived in Japan with little warning or preparation, I was not getting my hopes up for 4 days packed with interesting things to do.  Luckly, my friend Tyler delivered.  He informed me that my visit lined up with his long weekend, and we were going to a festival in a village on the north [...]