Nice ice festival
Congrats to all those who were involved in organizing and sponsoring the ice carving festival in downtown Monroe over the weekend.
I moseyed through the place and thought it was pretty and cool.
I expected to see a few more people, but for a first year thing it was a fairly respectable turnout on the two instances I strode by.
I did have a couple of disappointments.
First, why was it that some more businesses weren't open like on Saturday. There were some that seemed to be keeping extended hours, but it didn't seem like the whole downtown was behind this one.
Also, why couldn't there have been at least some street vendors. I would think you could have sold a ton of soup or hot chocolate or coffee from a cart on Loranger Square. Is this one of those cases where our government bureaucracy is just too much of a good thing?
I also thought that the community college was going to be represented. They always have a crew at the Plymouth ice festival. When we have one in the hometown, they're a no show?
We have to bring in people from Oakland?
Beyond that, it would have been nice to have a little more historic context, like maybe a poster board explaining how they used to harvest ice off the river in straw until the warmer months. (I think that's the story my grandfather used to tell).
One last thanks to Steve Alexander (aka Gen. Custer) for willingly freezing his historic ass off posing for pictures by the Custer ice sculpture.
I moseyed through the place and thought it was pretty and cool.
I expected to see a few more people, but for a first year thing it was a fairly respectable turnout on the two instances I strode by.
I did have a couple of disappointments.
First, why was it that some more businesses weren't open like on Saturday. There were some that seemed to be keeping extended hours, but it didn't seem like the whole downtown was behind this one.
Also, why couldn't there have been at least some street vendors. I would think you could have sold a ton of soup or hot chocolate or coffee from a cart on Loranger Square. Is this one of those cases where our government bureaucracy is just too much of a good thing?
I also thought that the community college was going to be represented. They always have a crew at the Plymouth ice festival. When we have one in the hometown, they're a no show?
We have to bring in people from Oakland?
Beyond that, it would have been nice to have a little more historic context, like maybe a poster board explaining how they used to harvest ice off the river in straw until the warmer months. (I think that's the story my grandfather used to tell).
One last thanks to Steve Alexander (aka Gen. Custer) for willingly freezing his historic ass off posing for pictures by the Custer ice sculpture.
posted by The Observer at 2/27/2007 12:48:00 PM
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No street vendors, but even better- the library was offering free hot chocolate during the festival, along with a "sneak peek" at the building renovation. Oddly, the second floor was off-limits and the first floor looked the same as it always has, only a bit emptier, so you couldn't really see any renovation progress even if you wanted to.
HI John!
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