Fiddleheads

I suppose by rights this post ought to be dedicated to singing the praises of the springtime vegetable delicacy available right now for a short time here in the Maritimes -- the still-unfurled ends of fern fronds that we find in the woods and gather, then steam or boil and fry briefly in butter and serve with a dash of vinegar -- but, alas, they will already be gone by the time the HaliCallahanicon is here.  No, instead I have in mind yet another incredible example of unconscious advance planning -- because for inscrutable reasons of its own the Sixty-third Annual Maritime Fiddle Festival has seen fit to schedule itself to coincide with the HaliCallahanicon of 2012, and is being held just across the harbour in Dartmouth! Click the banner below for more detailed information:

"Truly remarkable how these coincidences just seem to keep piling up..." drawls the late and much lamented Pernicious the Musquodoboit Harbour Farm Cat from astride his customary perch on top of the pile of ham sandwiches comprising the Free Lunch (tm) at Mike Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, meanwhile surreptitiously using a remote-controlled pair of his North Carolina Prosthetic Index Fingers (tm) to add his signature to yet another brief note recalling yet another hit squad he had been forced, very reluctantly, to dispatch via the Dartmouth Ferry to -er- purr-suade the management of Canada’s longest running old-time fiddle festival and competition  that scheduling their events to coincide with the HaliCallahanicon of 2012  was in everybody's best interests...