Each year, my family takes a trip back to our hometown of Ligonier, Indiana, to visit Fashion Farm.
Along with a variety of pumpkins and mums, Fashion Farm is home to Fantasyland and a restaurant.
Fantasyland is all about what you can contrive with pumpkins, gourds and some ingenuity. This year’s theme is Superheroes. Some of the annual displays are still there: the hall of presidents, including this year’s candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton with an empty seat bearing a question mark between them; Dolly Parton; and Snoopy.
Plenty of Marvel Comics superheroes fill the dried corn stock-lined path, along with a few villains. But the everyday heroes — firefighter, police officers and even basketball players — receive their own due.
Alas, no journalists defending the first amendment made the cut.
After visiting Fantasyland, wander on out to a couple of mazes and the old jail, which is a cell from one of the city’s old lockups.
But before you leave, don’t forget to buy some homemade pumpkin doughnuts and pumpkin ice cream. Trust me. You will love them!
Happy Fall!