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| Dawn Wells would be proud. |
Holtville, CA
My love for carrots stems (ha!) largely from an old episode of Gilligan's Island in which Gilligan discovers a crate of radioactive vegetable seeds. The plants grow suspiciously fast and are oddly misshapen, but the castaways devour them, like anyone else would after a steady diet of coconuts and...more coconuts.
The vegetables give each character "super powers": Gilligan's spinach intake renders him uncanny strength, Mrs. Howell becomes hyperactivity personified thanks to sugar beets, and the beloved Mary Ann is able to see for hundred of miles after eating radioactive carrots. Young and impressionable, I thought the whole carrot thing might work for me, too.
Fast-forward to the 21st century, and I'm slightly less gullible. I still dig carrots, though, as do the residents of Holtville, the self-proclaimed "Carrot Capital of the World". The people have been celebrating this popular root vegetable for over six decades with cook-offs, parades and live entertainment.
Indulge in carrot cake and carrot ice cream, congratulate the Carrot Festival Queen, and tip your hat to Sherwood Schwartz for steering you away from Twinkies and Ho-Ho's for at least a few minutes.
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