For several weeks, this tiny rural neighborhood becomes a warm spot for glitz and glamor.
It is the local indie music harvest, with over a hundred bands playing in 12 unusual arenas over the course of several weeks.
This is a locale for young and upcoming musicians to strut their stuff and get noticed by record executives. The entire neighborhood benefits from all the outside attention, and the outside currency. I rent many cabins near town, and for the music harvest every lake house 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 our cabins don’t have a/c at all, this year I tried something different. I contacted our seasoned pigskin chum Mike, who runs a small Heating and Air Conditioning supply shop in neighborhood and asked him about renting a few portable a/cs for the 2 month festival. It would be a nice boost of rearena for Mike’s business, and I knew for a fact our patrons wouldn’t bconnect twice at paying extra for an a/c. The day before the festival started Mike and several of her employees came out with a truckload of small a/c units, and suddenly set up 1 in each of the appropriate cabins. These a/cs are truly small, and it only took a few hours to set them up, then next year I should just buy the little a/cs from Walmart or from Amazon, and install them into the cabins permanently.