The Harvest Home celebration is a fall tradition since 1926 at the Silver Lake United Methodist Church. Its history can be traced to the farming heritage of Silver Lake when, just before Thanksgiving, church members would gather for a noon-time meal and bazaar to give thanks for the completion of the harvest season. In 1931, the celebration switched to an evening meal open to the community. In 1970, in addition to the dinner, a lunch was added — primarily to feed the women in the kitchen who were busy preparing the evening dinner. When word of the lunch began to spread, people started to come and it grew so popular that it was decided to expand the bazaar hours and incorporate the lunch into the celebration.
