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Folklife Friday: Come to the Fair!

The Northwest Alabama state fair has come and gone, and not many even noticed.

The fair used to be something we waited for, longed for, all during the hot summer. The week before the fair, promoters would install a huge spotlight that would sweep across the sky to remind folks to get ready. We would sit outside and watch that light and talk about what all we were going to do once we got to that fair!

Over thirty years ago, I was attending a monthly home demonstration club, and the leaders there encouraged us to enter our food and crafts in the fair competitions. So I entered some things, helping to insure there would be no empty shelves in the exhibition hall. To my utter delight, I won a blue ribbon for my whole wheat bread and my elderberry jelly! I have been taking things to the fair since then.

I fear that the fair and its exhibits will pass away with my generation. The times, they do change. Until then, I'll continue to take things as long as I'm able.


In celebration of the fair, I am giving this handsome fellow away to one of you. All you have to do is leave a comment here or where it is linked to my Facebook page. You can enter once a day until next Thursday, when I will draw for and announce the winner.

Is this fun or what?

Comments

  1. SandySeptember 30, 2011 at 7:02 AM

    I just wish I were close enough to you for you to teach me to quilt !!!!
    A novice from a long line of quilters !
    Your stuff is beautiful !

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  2. lil red henSeptember 30, 2011 at 2:32 PM

    Good ribbons!! I didn't enter anything in our county fair this year. I was told there didn't seem to be as many entries, so maybe this old tradition is in trouble.

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  3. Amy @ Hope Is the WordOctober 1, 2011 at 3:29 PM

    Well, some of the little people here would love that bear! Beautiful work as always, Wanda!

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  4. Janet,October 6, 2011 at 3:17 PM

    You are so talented! you deserve all your ribbons and more. I've entered things a few times, my blackberries got grand champion one year in their category.

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  5. Janet,October 6, 2011 at 3:17 PM

    You are so talented! you deserve all your ribbons and more. I've entered things a few times, my blackberries got grand champion one year in their category.

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