For two weeks, this tiny rural town becomes a hot spot for glitz and glamor.
It is the local indie music harvest, with over a hundred bands playing in 12 different venues over the course of two weeks.
This is a place for young and upcoming musicians to strut their stuff and get noticed by record executives. The entire town benefits from all the outside attention, and the outside money. I rent several cabins near town, and for the music harvest every cabin is booked well in advance. I charge more for an air conditioned cabin, but it doesn’t matter how much I raise the price they are always booked. Since about half of my cabins don’t have A/C at all, this year I tried something different. I contacted my old football chum Mike, who runs a small HVAC supply shop in town and asked him about renting a few portable air conditioners for the 2 week festival. It would be a nice boost of revenue for Mike’s business, and I knew for a fact my customers wouldn’t blink twice at paying extra for an air conditioner. The day before the festival started Mike and two of his employees came out with a truckload of small A/C units, and quickly set up one in each of the appropriate cabins. These air conditioners are very small, and it only took a few minutes to set them up. Next year I should just buy the little air conditioners from Walmart or from Amazon, and install them into the cabins permanently.