The Guilford Agricultural Fair was this past weekend (congratulations to the Cascio family and others with entries and prize-winners!). It's always fun to see the young and old assembled for such a time-honored community entertainment.
When I got there today, the spelling bee was in full swing; the kids were struggling with "intricate."
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Some of the rides seem really scary, some seem quite tame -- to me. Joy or terror are in the mind (or stomach) of the individual ...
And then there's the fair food. If limited to once or twice a year, perhaps you could call it "mental health food" ...
Aside from the food, rides, games (throw the ball, shoot the bottle), and vendors selling everything from basement systems to woven bracelets, there are the traditional displays of animals, and the "pulls" in which huge beasts of burden pull enormous loads. Watching this team pull 3,600 pounds of weight, it wasn't hard to see how early settlers could clear a field of New England boulders.
Until next year ...
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