Mushroom Festival

Kennett Square, PA, Sep. 7: Millions of mushrooms are grown in southeastern Pennsylvania and thus Kennett Square celebrates with a Mushroom Festival each September. Saturday's hurricane may have forced much of the two-day festival into Sunday, resulting into a mob scene in downtown Kennett Square. The result was a festival that was none too festive and seemed insufficiently mushroom. You go to gay pride and it's gay; you go to Songkran and it's Thai; you go to Honfest and it's Bawlmer, Hon; but you go to the Mushroom Festival and its a lot of cheese fries, root beer and unrelated arts and crafts and mushrooms not so much.

We did find mushroom spring rolls and fried mushrooms (though they don't compare to those in the Baltimore farmers market).

































We took refuge in the Half Moon Restaurant, which had a table for two on the roof--far above the madding crowd.