Every few weeks we bring out a new Roadside Attraction Series coffee. These coffees may be a single-origin (from one country or even part of a small lot from one farm) or a blend of special beans from a couple places.
One thing is for sure, each one is a limited edition. It's only around for a few weeks so try it out while you can!
Enjoy this coffee and dream of your next road trip!
THE DAVIDSON limited edition coffee
a dreamy Kenyan & Ethiopian blend
Kenyan + Ethiopian beans will have you dreaming of travel and happy times.
You may know that I LOVE East African coffees. and this one is a berry, berry delicious blend with notes of blackberry and peach. Brew up a cup, sit back and dream of your next travels!
Davidson, Saskatchewan & Its Giant Coffee Pot
When we were thinking about which cool Canadian roadside attractions to feature for our coffee series, a couple people mentioned Davidson’s giant coffee pot.
A giant coffee pot? In rural Saskatchewan? And a coffee cup, too!
It was obvious that we had to include this in our celebration of big things next to roads. And now that we’ve learned more about the town and its coffee landmark, I am scheming our next cross country road trip. I need to check this out in person!
Thank you to DELLA from Town of Davidson for the back story on why the town chose a Giant Coffee Pot as a feature.
Why a Coffee Pot?
It’s all about community & how coffee brings people together
“We all see our community through our own lens – the reality that one-person views may be entirely different than the reality of the neighbor because of different pasts, different presents, and different passions.
When developing a symbol for our community, we tried to find something with which everyone could identify. If you said to your neighbor, “Let’s go for coffee”, these words would ring of friendliness and hospitality across all generations. Thus, the coffee pot – a fine blend of rural hospitality.”
This symbol represents a community that knows how to be hospitable – how to host major sporting events, how to build and expand businesses and survive on good service, how to host highway guests to meals, meetings, golf greens and campgrounds, and how to rally around a neighbor in bad times and to celebrate together in good times.
Indeed though, we are a BLEND – a blend of ages, interests and gifts. From this perspective developed the idea of painting murals on the coffee pot to display something for everyone. Our “hospitality” side to the West wears the MIDWAY MAGIC Dinner Theatre masks, and old railway watch, a lantern, coffee grinder, coffee pot and telephone. The cross-stitch HOME SWEET HOME sign sits appropriately above the table displaying the PRAIRIE TAPESTRIES History Book. Hockey skates, a curling rock and a ball glove, represent the excellence in sport, of which Davidson and community are proud. The teacher’s bell on a familiar afghan pattern sits near the bottom representing the foundation of educational opportunities that have been and are available in our community. “a fine blend of rural hospitality.”
The East side mural tells of a “Community in Motion” – pride in our past, energy for the present and hope for the future. One can enjoy a nostalgic tour of our community, starting at Davidson’s former seven elevator skyline, past Grandpa’s armchair and an old wagon wheel, turning right at the roaring locomotive, being respectful of the Davidson Cenotaph flanked by the Canadian flag, see a tricycler, a Canadian Goose, the Saskatchewan flag and an airplane flying over a combine in a fall field of wheat and concluding with the ever more visible tractor trailer semi unit. Davidson is “a Community in Motion” then and now.”
The mural on the side of the coffee pot close up.
If you’d like to visit Davidson’s Giant Coffee Pot, you’ll find it about halfway betwen Regina and Saskatoon.
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