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Applefest (Bayfield, Wisconsin)
The Bayfield Applefest is a fall harvest festival held in October, in Bayfield, Wisconsin. Founded in 1962, it has become a destination for many people from across the Midwest, with an annual attendance of approximately 60,000 people. The festival is a celebration of Bayfield's local heritage, especially showcasing products from the many local apple orchards and wineries. The festival offers a variety of events and attractions. The street festival features over 60 booths, offering fresh foods and local crafts. Other attractions include tours of the 14 local orchards, live music, and an amusement park. History In the early 1960s, Jim Erickson, the owner of an orchard in Bayfield, was traveling to North Dakota to deliver a shipment of apples. While in Duluth, his truck had a flat tire. While waiting for a spare to be driven up from home, many people stopped to ask about buying his fruit. After selling bushels of apples to 25 people, he started wondering why he (and other Bayfield a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayfield, Wisconsin
Bayfield is a city in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 584 at the 2020 census. This makes it the city with the smallest population in Wisconsin. In fact, for a new city to be incorporated today, state regulations require a population of at least 1,000 residents, so it would have to be incorporated as a village instead. Wisconsin Highway 13 serves as a main route in the community. It is a former county seat, lumbering town, and commercial fishing community, which today is a tourist and resort destination. There are many restaurants, hotels, bed & breakfast establishments, specialty shops, and marine services. The local Chamber of Commerce refers to Bayfield as the "Gateway to the Apostle Islands". History Bayfield was named in 1856 for Henry Bayfield, a British Royal Topographic Engineer who explored the region in 1822–23. A post office has been in operation at Bayfield since 1856. Geography Bayfield is located at (46.8115, -90.8203). According ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wisconsin Trails
''Wisconsin Trails'' magazine was a bimonthly regional magazine that covered life around the state of Wisconsin, from people, history and culture to travel, nature and environmentalism. Its circulation as of mid-2007 was about 50,000. It existed between 1960 and 2013. History The first issue of ''Wisconsin Tales & Trails'' magazine appeared in spring 1960, in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. The founder and first editor was Leroy Gore whose purpose was "to make Wisconsin so irresistible that outsiders couldn't stay away and insiders couldn't bear the thought of leaving." A year later, Gore sold the magazine to Howard and Nancy Mead, who began publishing it from the basement of their Madison home. Under the Meads' direction, the magazine covered everything from outdoor sports to Wisconsin lore. Over the years, readers got to know the Meads and their children through the pages of the magazine. The Meads shortened the name to ''Wisconsin Trails'' in 1971. In 1982, the magazine began acceptin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apple Festivals
An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus domestica''). Apple trees are cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus ''Malus''. The tree originated in Central Asia, where its wild ancestor, ''Malus sieversii'', is still found today. Apples have been grown for thousands of years in Asia and Europe and were brought to North America by European colonists. Apples have religious and mythological significance in many cultures, including Norse, Greek, and European Christian tradition. Apples grown from seed tend to be very different from those of their parents, and the resultant fruit frequently lacks desired characteristics. Generally, apple cultivars are propagated by clonal grafting onto rootstocks. Apple trees grown without rootstocks tend to be larger and much slower to fruit after planting. Rootstocks are used to control the speed of growth and the size of the resulting tree, allowing for easier harvesting. There are more th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayfield County, Wisconsin
Bayfield County is the northernmost county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, its population is 16,220. Its county seat is Washburn. The county was created in 1845 and organized in 1850. The Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has a reservation in Bayfield County and is the county's largest employer. History Originally, in 1848 it was named La Pointe County, Wisconsin. After Douglas (1854) and Ashland (1860) Counties were split off from the original La Pointe County, the remainder was renamed Bayfield County on April 12, 1866. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (28%) is water. It is the third-largest county in Wisconsin by total area and second-largest by land area. Adjacent counties * Ashland County – east * Sawyer County – south * Washburn County – southwest * Douglas County – west * Lake County, Minnesota – north Major highways Buses *Bay Area Rural Transit *Indian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festivals In Wisconsin
A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, Melā, mela, or Muslim holidays, eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agriculture, agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern. Festivals often serve to fulfill specific communal purposes, especially in regard to commemoration or thanking to the gods, goddesses or saints: they are called patronal festivals. They may also provide entertainment, which was particularly important to local communities before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Festivals In The United States
This is an incomplete list of festivals in the United States with articles on Wikipedia, as well as lists of other festival lists, by geographic location. This list includes festivals of diverse types, among them regional festivals, commerce festivals, fairs, food festivals, arts festivals, religious festivals, folk festivals, and recurring festivals on holidays. Festivals unique to the United States (and Canada and Mexico in some cases) include pow wows, Rocky Mountain Rendezvous, blues festivals, county fairs, state fairs, ribfests, and strawberry festivals. The first U.S. state fair was that of New York, held in 1841 in Syracuse, and has been held annually to the present year. The second state fair was in Detroit, Michigan, which started in 1849. Lists of festivals by local |
South Shore Brewery
South Shore Brewery is a regional Microbrewery, craft brewery in Ashland, Wisconsin. It was founded in 1995 and owned by Brewery#Brewmaster, brewmaster Bo Bélanger. The brewery was the seventh licensed microbrewery in the state of Wisconsin, and became northern Wisconsin's first modern micro-brewery. South Shore produces an assortment of beers, many of which are seasonal. The brewery has a small production facility in a local Microbrewery#Brewpub, brewpub, the ''Deepwater Grille'', where its specialty and seasonal beers are produced, and all of the brewery's beverages are available Beer tap, on tap. A second location was opened in nearby Washburn, Wisconsin in 2016, that serves as the main production brewery, with a tasting room and retail outlet. As of 2016, South Shore beer is available for sale in 60 counties, in three states. Products The company's flagship beer is ''Nut Brown Ale'', a medium-colored ale, with low bitterness, similar to an English Mild ale. In 2008, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
