Sunday, September 2, 2012

Take me to the Fair...

Jeez-us. It's Labor Day weekend already. We had about three days of summer. There was a lot of horrible, hot, humid nastiness which visited and became the guest who wouldn't leave. Was that supposed to be summer in Vermont?

It's been a few years now since I had to put down the Jimmy. The lack of vehicular transport frustrates me quite a bit at this season - it's Fair Time. I used to love the State Fair in Rutland - aside from having a really crappy side show, suitably tacky decrepit rides, extraordinary maple doughnuts (consumed with coffee sweetened with maple sugar, natch!) and some of the best french fries and deep fried onion rings on the planet, that fair had the superbly entertaining Vietnamese Pot Bellied Pig Races. I've no idea where the pictures I took years ago have gotten to. Instead, I'll just have to satisfy myself with a few pics I took with my cheap digital camera a few years back at the Guilford Fair.

Guilford is a small village (or maybe a series of villages) just south of Brattleboro. I'm always amazed when I hear that there are 2,000 people there. It makes me wonder if the count includes all the cows and all the zombies. At any rate, there is an annual Labor Day Fair which is always worth attending as they have a booth with pretty good french fries too.

When you first get to the fair, you get to park in a field alongside this house, which is across the country lane from the fair site (I'd love to explore that house):










As one first enters the site, one sees the area where young riders prepare for their exhibition:


Up the hill at the fair proper is an old barn where the season's crop of veggies are judged:










And of course, the livestock exhibit and competition:












































Further up the hill is the midway:





































You thought I was kidding about the zombies, didn't you?

Well, you'll have to excuse me now. I'm off to a Labor Day fair where I can have a dance....
(visual distortion at the beginning clears up quickly)

3 comments:

Austan said...

Email Wendy, she's got wheels and wants to go!

sdt (a.k.a. stevil) said...

Austan -

Eh.

They all cost money.

Worse yet I could go and find them altered to a point where I would feel grimy for reveling in their tackiness.

Even worse yet they could have been spit shined and polished to a point where their resemblance to what they really are is like a Republican Convention.
Or Grafton.

Think I’ll just stay at home in splendid isolation.

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