{"id":5748,"date":"2013-08-10T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=5748"},"modified":"2013-08-10T00:48:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T04:48:03","slug":"weekend-fun-almonte-puppets-perth-garlic-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2013\/08\/10\/weekend-fun-almonte-puppets-perth-garlic-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend fun: Almonte puppets, Perth garlic and more"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Puppets Up!<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Summer! It’s a great season – except for how hard it is to squeeze everything into mere 24 hour days.<\/p>\n

Take this weekend for example. If you like puppets, check out “Puppets Up! International Puppet Festival<\/a>“. \u00a0This is the 9th annual such event in lovely Almonte, Ontario. That’s a former mill town along the Mississippi River, about 40 minutes west\/south-west of downtown Ottawa.<\/p>\n

The Ottawa Citizen has more about what’s on tap with Puppets Up! there this weekend<\/a>. (See the end of this post for more explanation of Canada’s Mississippi River.)<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a bit closer to the U.S. border, there’s also Perth’s 16th annual garlic festival<\/a>\u00a0($5 admission)\u00a0There’s a slightly smaller garlic festival in Carp<\/a> this weekend too (free admission).\u00a0Other garlic festivals around Canada and the U.S. for 2013 are listed on this page from the Garlic Seed Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Garlic<\/a>

Garlic products on display at the 2011 Perth Garlic Festival. Photo: Lucy Martin<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Roman<\/a>

Roman glass<\/a> ware that’s almost 2,00 years old. Photo: Lucy Martin<\/p><\/div>\n

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Last weekend (a 3-day weekend in Ontario) we did some cycling and exploring in New York’s Finger Lakes, where we finally saw the Corning Museum\u00a0of Glass<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Tiffany<\/a>

Tiffany stained glass, vases and lamps<\/a> at the Corning Museum of Glass (photo: Lucy Martin)<\/p><\/div>\n

That was a remarkable reminder of how wrong initial assumptions can be. For some reason, I just thought it was about the industry of making glass and glass products. You know, one of those “eat your spinach” destinations: very healthy, if not exactly delightful. (And I say that as someone who likes glass products and spinach.)<\/p>\n

But it’s actually full of beautiful,engrossing art, artifacts and displays. We went late Sunday afternoon (after a day of cycling). Although they stay open until 8 pm, that meant we missed most of the live glass-blowing demonstrations. So we’ll simply “have” to go see it again sometime.<\/p>\n

I am sure remarkable events and destinations are on tap in your neighborhood too, because summer is just that way around here. As can be proven by NCPR’s community calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What special place or activity do you think more people should know about?<\/p>\n

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postscript: No, the American Mississippi River does not have a smaller tributary up in Ontario. Here is more on the much smaller river<\/a>\u00a0of the same name from Wikipedia:<\/p>\n

The origin of the river’s name is something of a mystery; although its current spelling may be derived from that of its\u00a0much larger American cousin<\/a>, it is most certainly a corruption of a different native name, as the translation ‘great water’ would not apply to a relatively minor tributary of the Ottawa, definitely the largest river in the area. Instead, the name may originate from “Mazinaa[bikinigan]-ziibi<\/i>“, Algonquian for ‘[painted] image river’, referring to the\u00a0pictographs<\/a>\u00a0found on\u00a0Mazinaw Lake<\/a>, though this is by no means proven.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If that’s wrong, or if there’s more to the story of how both rivers share the same name, do please share additional details in the comment section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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