tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69934617414035118882011-07-08T08:56:17.458-07:00startUP girlnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993461741403511888.post-16577539729712855752011-03-05T18:21:00.000-08:002011-03-05T18:21:47.892-08:00<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Ah49T2jgI6I/TXLu3yVgLkI/AAAAAAAAAH4/dMjb95ThJP0/s1600/OldGuysBank.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" l6="true" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Ah49T2jgI6I/TXLu3yVgLkI/AAAAAAAAAH4/dMjb95ThJP0/s320/OldGuysBank.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2009 Cameron's Pharmacy Scarecrow Entry</td></tr></tbody></table>Each year on the weekend before Thanksgiving the community of Lumsden comes alive with scarecrows.&nbsp; Individuals and businesses decorate their yards with displays for the annual festival.&nbsp; Festival day events include the ever popular People Movers, which tour the nearly 100 community scarecrow displays; a Country Fair featuring musical entertainment, food vendors, crafters and other goods for sale; lots of activities for children; and the pumpkin catapult competition in which small pumpkins are "chucked" the length of a football field with home built catapults (that cannot contain any mechanical parts).<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6993461741403511888-1657753972971285575?l=lumsdentourism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>startUP girlnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993461741403511888.post-22941421427756725802010-05-26T18:47:00.000-07:002010-05-26T18:49:38.151-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0pfwG2dbrlk/S_3OOMF-UpI/AAAAAAAAAGs/Wsiqrc1LFZE/s1600/WongBarn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0pfwG2dbrlk/S_3OOMF-UpI/AAAAAAAAAGs/Wsiqrc1LFZE/s320/WongBarn.jpg" /></a>Just west of town, on the scenic Seven Bridges Road, is the Wong barn.&nbsp; It has been the backdrop to family pictures and wedding photos, painted by local artists and photographed for its majesty and reminder of days gone by.&nbsp; This local landmark&nbsp;was owned by Fred Carss, nephew of Ed Carss, the first man to settle in the Lumsden district in 1881.&nbsp; Time has taken its toll on this local landmark as evidenced by its crumbling foundation. What once supported a history rich in agriculture now moves artists to photograph, to sketch and to paint a piece of the past.&nbsp; <a href="http://lumsdenhistoryexamined.blogspot.com/2010/03/historic-places.html">Read more . . .</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6993461741403511888-2294142142775672580?l=lumsdentourism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>startUP girlnoreply@blogger.com0