Gotta love the fair
July 20th, 2007, 9:49 pm · Post a Comment · posted by davis
We’ll be heading to the Jackson County Fairgrounds later today. Our older daughter needs to deliver some of her projects to the 4-H building for display and judging. That process started Wednesday for her and many other children across the county.
I’ve admitted this in print before, that when I first came to Jackson County, I really didn’t “get” the fair. I found it perplexing that people arranged with vacations around the fair. That people went there every day. That people amassed in the lawn chair zone. That people were just so, well, crazy about the Jackson County Fair.
Not that I’m big on musicals (I’ve always had a problem with seeing thugs dancing in the alleys on New York City’s west side, for example, and the “Sound of Music” just wears me out), but for a while I used to smugly sing “our county fair if the best county fair,” ala Rodgers & Hammerstein’s 1966 Braodway musical, “State Fair.” I just didn’t understand the big deal.
But you know what? It didn’t take too many years around here, especially since having children, before I came to really enjoy the fair. And it is a good fair. No, it’s a great fair. You can find great food, like porkburgers; great drinks, like lemon shakeups in the Show Arena; and great treats, like the ice cream at the Farm Bureau Building.
And don’t forget all the people you run into, people who you may not see the rest of the year. It really is like a homecoming for many folks.
Yeah, our county fair really is the best county fair.
