A balmy Fall Harvest Festival (slideshow)
With temperatures reaching into the low 80s during the afternoon Saturday, it hardly felt like fall in North Branch, but the warm fall weather lead to a good turnout at the Fall Harvest Festival. Photos by Derrick Knutson
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- Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Seasonal Naturalist Katie Bowman showed festival attendees how to thresh seed by hand. After they were finished, festival goers got to keep the seed.
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- Laura Greene, 30, of Center City, took first place overall among the women in the 5K with a time of 21.23. Ed Hudella, 47, of North Branch, was the men’s overall winner with a time of 17.45.
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- Runners dashed off the starting line during the third-annual Scarecrow Stampede 5K at 10 a.m.
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- This young lady got a good view of the fair festivities atop her father’s shoulders.
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- The Midsummer ambassadors welcomed fair attendees over to the giant pumpkin and prompted them to guess the weight of the sizeable squash. (L to r) Ambassador Jessica Wicklund, 11-year-old Theresa Abler of North Branch, 8-year-old Kobe Yang and his 4-year-old sister Karen, also of North Branch, and ambassadors Lydia Olund and Sydney Hylland posed in front of the pumpkin.
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- Pine City resident Dorothy McKenzie has been selling her gourd baskets and other fall fare for 10 years. “I just enjoy the people,” she said. “They look forward to the homegrown products of the fall.”
