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Elarie
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Aug 1 2015, 12:54pm
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Do you love going to fairs and festivals?
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It's that Fair and Festival time of year here in Ohio and I spent yesterday at the state fair, surrounded by funnel cakes, deep fried oreos, corn-on-the-cob, pig races, sheep shearing, cattle shows, ax throwing, baking contests, crazy spinning rides, games, etc. ...and of course, our traditional and beloved Butter Cow display. But we also have county fairs and festivals of all sorts - pumpkin festivals, bratwurst festivals, corn festivals, harvest festivals, heritage days, Oktoberfest, the Renaissance Festival, and lots more. Do you like fairs and festivals? What are they like in your part of the world? I would love to hear what the rest of the world is doing at their fairs and festivals while we're eating fried dough sprinkled with sugar and watching The Lumberjack Show.
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Gianna
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Aug 1 2015, 7:00pm
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I sorta enjoy them, when I actually go...
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Here in southwestern Ontario most small towns have agricultural fairs in the fall, including my town. Homecraft, crops, livestock and poultry displays are the best part of it; never watched the 4-H shows or demolition derby, and I only patronize the midway every couple of years. (Not a fan of having my stomach thrown completely out of routine... ) Ottawa Valley stepdancing is a big thing around here too, so we go to quite a few stepdancing/fiddle competitions. Extremely amusing trying to figure out which dancer's legs go the fastest.
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zarabia
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Aug 2 2015, 3:47am
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I enjoy fairs and festivals, but, for various and sundry reasons, I haven't been to any in quite a long time. The Tulsa area offers a surprisingly wide range of events, but I just don't get the chance to go. The last time was almost ten years ago when I met friends from work at Mayfest, an arts and crafts fair that also has food and music. I bought a suitable-for-framing, matted block of stamps from New Zealand with guess what on them.
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Elarie
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Aug 2 2015, 11:32am
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I had to YouTube that! Looks pretty great and reminded me of clog dancing and Irish step dancing (I'm not an expert so hope I didn't just inadvertently insult anyone). This is the weekend of our Irish Festival up in Dublin, so there will be lots of Irish dancing and music up there. Interesting note in our newspaper a few days ago - it's now legal to wear your pistol on your hip at the Irish Festival as long as you have an open carry license. Since part of the appeal of the festival are the 'beverages' I'm not sure if that is the brightest idea to ever come down the pike but hopefully no one will actually do it.
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Elarie
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Aug 2 2015, 11:33am
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I never see anything LOTR or Hobbit related around here, even at RenFest. Very sad.
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Darkstone
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Aug 3 2015, 2:58pm
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Though I'm doing a lot more sitting these days. A few: Scarborough Renaissance Festival, Muenster Texas Germanfest, Wichita County Fair, Texas State Fair, Bluegrass Music Festival, Texas-Oklahoma Fair, Falls Fest, Texas Ranch Roundup, Top of Texas Art Show, Sheppard Air Force Base Officers' Spouses' Hanger Holiday Craft Fair, Texas High Performance Auction/ Trade Show/ Swap Meet, Arts Alive! Home and Garden Festival, Red River Wine Festival, Faith City Kennel Club Dog Show, and the Wichita Falls Zombie Crawl (I always end up getting caught and eaten by the zombies.)
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Elarie
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Aug 3 2015, 4:18pm
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Those all sound like fun and good times. And I had a nice surprise at the Irish Festival yesterday - they had two Irish Bog Ponies there from a farm here in Ohio that is helping to restock the breed. Adorable.
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RosieLass
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Aug 3 2015, 4:56pm
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And if someone really wanted to take me to one, I'd go and probably enjoy myself. But I've become such a homebody that I'd really just prefer to stay home.
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Annael
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Aug 6 2015, 4:12pm
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I live in a tourist town and oh lordy
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seems like we have a festival every other weekend. Locals know to stay away from downtown/the waterfront when one is going on! But some are too much fun to avoid, so I park uptown & walk & just enjoy the madness. The Wooden Boat Festival is our biggest. We are a town of 8000 that swells to around 30,000 for the WBF. I go about every fifth year. The annual Film Festival is pretty good! And the new Steampunk Festival is growing yearly. Here's the full list: January Strange Brewfest February Shipwright's Regatta March PT PlayFest Victorian Heritage Festival Chamber Music Festival April Farmers Market Opens Kitchen Tour JeffCo Expo May Rotary Auction Rhody Festival Rhody Run Hood Canal Shrimpfest June Chili Cook-Off Classic Mariner's Regatta Steampunk Rat Island Regatta Rakers Car Show Fiddle Tunes Festival July Jazz Port Townsend Festival of American Fiddle Tunes PT Writers’ Conference Concerts on the Dock August Acoustic Blues Festival Summer Cider Day Jefferson County Fair Uptown Street Fair Classic Car Show Shakespeare in the Park Art Port Townsend Kayak Rendezvous September Wooden Boat Festival Crafts By the Dock Arts Fair Jefferson County Farm Tour PT Film Festival October Kinetic Skulpture Race Downtown Trick or Treat November Arts & Craft Fair Woodworker's Show December Victorian Holidays One of them is pretty much just for locals, our Rhody Fest, and involves a week of events like the Pet Parade, the Kiddie Parade, and bed races between different organizations (seems like the hospital always wins, they're used to moving beds around). I often take part in the 12 K run/walk with friends, and go see the big parade that finishes it off. My favorite participants are the women who dance with lawn chairs, but every year there's something new and wonderful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7mjRyFdsXs
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Aug 6 2015, 8:33pm
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We generally go to the county fair, though we missed it this year.
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Uncle Baggins is more interested than I am. There's a carnival with rides, and I like to ride the carousel and ferris wheel and to wander among the others. There are 4H projects, quilts, animals like horses and cows and sheep and chickens. We like watching some of the horse activities; it takes me back to the days when I was a horse-crazy kid who never got to see real horses much. I wish I could bring that kid with me to watch. Sometimes there are fireworks at night, but sometimes the weather prevents them. We used to go to the Ren Fest every year, a hundred miles south of us in Larkspur, Colorado. It was great fun, but also very hot and dusty, and at my age I've lost my enthusiasm. My best memory was the time a bunch of us folk dancers went down together. A random strolling band played "Mairie's Wedding" and we lined up and did the country dance that goes with that tune. People thought we were part of the entertainment, but we were really just visitors like anybody else. Oh, and we used to perform at a state "folklife festival", some 35 years ago. That was really fun too. There were groups from all over the world, including some great fire dancers and players of big loud drums. We would do usually Turkish and Bulgarian dances. I guess Pridefest kind of counts. We still go to that every year in Denver. It's an amazing parade. One year Uncle Baggins got invited to a bear party, but politely declined. He was flattered to be asked, though.
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Ataahua
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Aug 6 2015, 11:38pm
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No festival of Twilight in the Park?
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*flees*
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Annael
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Aug 7 2015, 12:21am
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they're at the other end of the county and there's a mountain range in between, luckily
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swordwhale
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Aug 17 2015, 1:41am
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The local York PA fair is, I think, the oldest in the country. When I was a kid, it was all about the farm animals and produce and funnel cake with a few rides and games. When I got to adulthood, my dad got fed up with it muttering something about "gone too commercial". I've enjoyed the local Renn Faire too, but having done living history with SCA and Longship Company and its related early medieval history group. I found the Renn faire just didn't stack up to doing your own thing. Now funnel cake... that's something else...
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