Moab Happenings
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SHOPPING<br />
DINING<br />
MOAB HAPPENINGS<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
NIGHT LIFE<br />
Volume 21 Number 7 FREE Section B October 2009<br />
OUT OF OUR GOURDS<br />
I can’t say my love affair with<br />
gourds began at first sight–I had<br />
been looking at them in various<br />
forms for years without a flicker<br />
of recognition. It was only in<br />
April of 2001, at the Great Gourd<br />
Show in Bluff, that I was formally<br />
introduced to Legenaria siceraria<br />
and fell in love.<br />
Only little by little did I<br />
discover how many CV and<br />
<strong>Moab</strong> locals, as well as folks<br />
across the country, had been<br />
growing and working hard shell<br />
gourds for ages–and beautifully.<br />
Once my mind embraced the<br />
existence of gourds in this land,<br />
I began to see them everywhere<br />
I looked. Displayed openly or<br />
hidden in books or crannies, my<br />
cricket and bird houses, masks<br />
and sheaths, musical instruments<br />
(perfect resonators), games<br />
and charms, sculptures, even<br />
telephones (as good as two cans<br />
connected with string used to be)<br />
and back scratchers. Anyone with<br />
a green thumb, water, space, and<br />
lots of sunshine can grow them,<br />
so they are a medium available to<br />
any income. People with patience,<br />
curiosity, inventiveness, and a<br />
sense of adventure and humor can<br />
enrich their lives.<br />
Our ninth Castle Valley<br />
Gourd Festival is scheduled for<br />
Saturday, October 17 th at the<br />
CV Commons just 20 miles NE<br />
of <strong>Moab</strong>, 11am to 3pm. Free<br />
admission. Displays will feature<br />
eyes found them. My fingers learned the<br />
ways of working them–cleaning them and<br />
then decorating them for many purposes, as<br />
humans have done for millennia. I learned to<br />
respond to their undulations and creamy<br />
surfaces. I became inebriated by them.<br />
That Fall a small group of us friends<br />
offered our first Castle Valley Gourd<br />
Festival, and each October since then we<br />
have presented this celebration of one of<br />
our oldest and most useful cultivated plants.<br />
Our gourd-human connection is ancient. It is said that gourds<br />
were native to Africa and spread to both Asia and the Americas<br />
in prehistoric times. They are thought to<br />
predate pottery and basket making, and to<br />
be directly or indirectly responsible for the<br />
development of both those crucial arts.<br />
Gourds have been and still are ideally<br />
suited to many functions--as containers,<br />
utensils, floats and rafts, tobacco pipes,<br />
gourds in all their shapes and guises, with<br />
opportunities to work on them yourself (all ages),<br />
including for the 2 nd year Gourds of Wisdom.<br />
Exhibitors are welcome and booth space is free<br />
(gourds only). Please bring a favorite food to<br />
share at our Famous Firehouse Potluck Lunch.<br />
Dress up and march, ride, or drive in our Tractor<br />
or Something Peculiar Parade at high noon, and<br />
meet Big Gourdie and this year’s Gourd Goddess.<br />
Contribute a gourd piece to our Silent Auction<br />
and come ready to bid and buy, or loan your favorite gourd to our Gourd Gallery for the day.<br />
Sample our Free Fortunes and Faces. Make Music with gourd or regular instruments. Come<br />
and share a day of Gourdgeous Sights and Experience where all ages can have fun and enjoy<br />
the sunshine and friendly atmosphere. Don’t worry too<br />
much about losing your head and heart to gourds. We<br />
take care of each other.<br />
For more info contact Cris at 435-259-2245 or<br />
Bob 259-9320 www.grandgourds.com and www.<br />
castlevalleyrocks.com<br />
Cris Coffey is Coordinator of the Castle Valley<br />
Gourd Festival.<br />
See a<br />
complete<br />
menu<br />
on our<br />
website<br />
Family friendly<br />
Big parties welcome<br />
Patio & terrace dining<br />
Tavern area with flat<br />
screen TVs<br />
Loft lounge area with<br />
pool & foosball tables<br />
12 beers on tap<br />
Fresh salads<br />
Great organic pizza<br />
& burgers<br />
Custom aged steaks<br />
Fresh seafood<br />
Pasta<br />
Mexican food<br />
Homemade desserts<br />
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Pizza & more, to Main St. businesses & hotels<br />
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LUNCH starting at 11:30 am<br />
DINNER starting at 4:30 pm<br />
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No food orders<br />
necessary, no “private<br />
club” memberships<br />
required!<br />
SUNDAY BRUNCH —<br />
11:30 am–2:30 pm<br />
FREE WI-FI<br />
Conveniently located at<br />
Center & Main,<br />
in McStiffs Plaza<br />
435-259-BEER (2337)<br />
www.EddieMcStiffs.com<br />
BREAKFAST<br />
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7–11:30 am<br />
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57 S. Main <br />
in McStiff’s Plaza<br />
435-259-2420<br />
Call in orders welcome
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