News stories tagged with "fair"

(08/27/10) Carnivals are something of an endangered species these days. Knowing this was the last time Ottawa's SuperEX would be at historic Lansdowne Park, organizers made space for visiting displays that focus on the rides, sideshows and music long associated with going to the fair - including a restored Wurlitzer organ the size of a small rail car.

Lucy Martin asked Jennifer Walker about the amazing music machine, which led to a conversation about the mission of the Carnival Museum.

(08/09/10) Be it goats, cows, maple syrup or funnel cake, the St. Lawrence county fair has it all. Sarah Harris visited the fair in Gouverneur, ate too much funnel cake, braved the rides on the midway and sent this audio postcard.

(07/10/07) The fairgrounds on the outskirts of Watertown are bustling this week as the oldest continuously operating county fair opened today. Martha Foley has more.

(08/25/06) The 85th Champlain Valley Fair opens Saturday and runs through Labor Day in Essex Junction, Vermont. Spokesman Stephen Mease says it's Vermont's largest fair and biggest annual event with a variety of entertainment, agricultural and educational exhibits, competitions, music and food.

(09/12/03) Meet the Masters takes you to a small-town agricultural fair held in Hammond each September. There are chickens, sheep, cows, horses, geese, rabbits, kids and young farmers; an egg toss, a pie-eating contest, the chicken barbeque--all a part of celebrating the town's farming heritage. Lamar Bliss reports.