With two great festivals in one great neighborhood, there's no excuse not to visit the Highlands this weekend. Check out the Belknap Fall Festival at Douglass Loop on Friday and Saturday and Farmington Harvest Festival on Sunday.
Oaks behind me, I needed Oats. On Derby morning, I was tasked with breakfast, both personally and professionally. The Historic Homes Foundation was nice enough to invite my wife and I, along with media sponsor Garden & Gun magazine, to the 34th Annual Historic Homes Foundation Derby Breakfast at Farmington Historical Plantation. The Plantation is nestled next to Sullivan University, and when I say ‘nestled’, I am speaking of the one-lane tree-lined road along the student dorms. This secluded road leads to what used to house a 50-acre hemp plantation built for John and Lucy Speed during 1815 and is now a national historic treasure.
Farmington fete combines local traditions with the spirit of the new
