Mid-August is State Fair time in Springfield. It's time to close down summer, get ready for fall, and also do some remembering. Think we're getting older? Nah, just longer memories.The picture above, of the Fair grandstand and harness races, is from a site called Penny Postcards from Sangamon County, Illinois. Thanks to Diane Urbankas for sending it.
C. E. Welch found a cool site called Take Me Back to the Sixties. It's a slide show with music, images, and good memories of 50s and 60s days.
And finally, I found a hilarious You Tube video that displays 59 kinds of food on a stick at the Minnesota State Fair. Now, that's what fairs are really for!
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My husband Dave grew up in a small town in Maine where they had a tiny fair that he thought was a pretty big deal. Then I took him to the Ill. State Fair. He just couldn't believe the size of it and still talks about the John Deere combine he saw there. He claimed it was as big as a whole field back home. I loved that fair. It's one of my very best memories from childhood, but now I have to make do with the New York State Fair.
Barbara Edmiston Mitchell
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