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Thanksgiving in the Kawarthas
- Posted by: Tim Johnson on October 9, 2012
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Although my job as a travel writer takes me to some very far-flung places, I almost always make it home to Peterborough for Thanksgiving. It’s a special time in the Kawarthas—the sun seems always to shine, the heat of summer gone but leaving pleasant sweater weather in its wake, with the autumn leaves around the lakes at their most beautiful, colourful peak. In the past, I organized an annual football game with friends; known as the “Turkeybowl,” it was a marquis event for many years, and I will never forget tossing the pigskin outside, under the sun, next to a forest bursting with red, yellow and brown trees.
Fortunately, although the Turkeybowl has faded into the past, the Kawarthas still offer a number of wonderful autumn events over the Thanksgiving weekend. Take, for example, the Pumpkin Festival at the Buckhorn Berry Farm, which kicks off on Thanksgiving and runs every weekend until the end of the month—there’s a corn maze, a haunted barn, and wagon rides out to the pumpkin patch to pick out a jack-o-lantern for Halloween. Or the Norwood Fair, one of the region’s great autumn traditions, with a fun midway, tractor pull, horse show and competitions, live music and lawn tractor races, plus, of course, harvest-themed events that showcase the area’s agricultural bounty. And if you don’t feel like cooking a turkey? No problem. Just head to Harmony Farm, a home style restaurant located between Fenelon Falls and Kinmount, where they’ll do the home cooking for you, preparing a feast of turkey and all the fixings (plus soup and pumpkin pie) for a very reasonable price.
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