State Fairs
Any good stories about your State Fair? Was it a big thing where you’re from? I grew up near our state capital and went nearly every year and go every year now as an adult.
Ever since I was a kid I’ve entered crafts and food I’ve made and I’m busy tonight working on my entries to take in tomorrow. I have done really well in the past and have lots of first place wins over the years. One year when I was 13 I won Best in Show for a quilt that I made and I think my grandmother, who taught me how to sew. the proudest of me for that than anything else I ever did.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 13, 2024 1:51 AM
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Oh heavens, 13? Much earlier than that, R1. When I was nine and icing a cake for my grandmother and she came over to inspect my work and looked at me saying, “Son, one day you’re going to make someone an excellent wife.”
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 13, 2024 1:40 AM
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But did you raise a prize-winning hog named after a gay magazine?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 13, 2024 1:41 AM
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Our state fair is a great state fair--
It's the best state fair in our state!
It's dollars to doughnuts at our state fair!
It's the best state fair in our state!
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 13, 2024 1:45 AM
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I ride balloon! Where my dolly?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 13, 2024 1:48 AM
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David Foster Wallace vividly and perfectly captured the culture of the midwestern state fair in his 1994 Harper's essay, "Ticket to the Fair."
RIP, DFW.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 13, 2024 1:49 AM
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It makes me feel so gay in a melancholy way.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 13, 2024 1:49 AM
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Link to DFW reading from "Ticket to the Fair."
RIP, DFW.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 13, 2024 1:51 AM
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