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Thanks To The Drought, Animals Are Smaller, Scarcer At This Year's Fairs

AP | CARRIE ANTLFINGER | Posted 09.28.2012 | Business
Read More: Farming, Chickens, Farm Animals, Livestock, Pigs, Agriculture, Fairs, Weather, Animals, Midwest Drought, Drought, Video, Heat Wave, Cows, Farmers, State Fairs, County Fair, Sheep, Ap, Business News

MILWAUKEE (AP) — State and county fairs in the sweltering and drought-stricken Midwest may see some skinnier pigs and smaller squash this year. ...

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The Museum of Unnatural History in Strangetown (PHOTOS)

Hans Proppe | Posted 09.01.2012 | Arts
Read More: Surreal, Strange, Absurd, Odd, Slidefreestyle, Rush Limbaugh, Unnatural History, Eros, Skull, American Flag, County Fair, Hand, Thanatos, Dream Weird, Dream, Photography, Exposure, Arts News
Hans Proppe

2012-07-02-hansproppestrangetown.jpgI had a dream last night, a strange dream, visiting a strange place with a strange museum...

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Andrew Burmon

PHOTOS: Revisiting The Fair From 'Charlotte's Web'

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Burmon | Posted 11.05.2012 | Travel
Read More: Slideadbigshot, The New Yorker, Global Pulse, E.B. White, Blue Hill Fair, Destinations, Maine, Children's Books, US Destinations, Travel on the Road, Charlotte's Web, Maine Travel, County Fair, Down East, Travel News

In the sixty years since E.B. White wrote Charlotte's Web, the novel that immortalized its humble, dusty charms, Maine's Blue Hill Fair has undergone ...

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Deep Fried Kool-Aid Balls: The Newest In Fair Fare

Posted 08.20.2011 | Home
Read More: Deep Fried Kool Aid, Kool Aid, Video, Deep Fried Food, Deep Fried Kool Aid Balls, County Fairs, County Fair, Fried Food, Fried Kool-Aid Balls, Fried Kool Aid, Fried Kool-Aid, Fried Kool Aid Recipe, Home News

The county fair circuit must be getting desperate for new fried foods. After all, fried beer, deep-fried Twinkies and fried lemonade have been cloggin...

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A County Fair With City Flair Grows in Brooklyn

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Derek Denckla, County Fair, Urban Agriculture, Farm City Fair, Crossing the Line, NY Events, Brooklyn, Green News
Kerry Trueman

With beehives, chicken coops, and rooftop farms popping up all over Brooklyn, it's high time us city folks revived that end of summer ritual, the county fair.

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We Are the Champions! Marin County Fair: Greenest County Fair on Earth

Annie Spiegelman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Recycling, Sustainable Food, Compost, Composting, Food, Food Waste, County Fair, Carbon Footprint, Green News
Annie Spiegelman

Marin County officials are claiming the record for recycling the most ever waste at a county fair. Roughly 90 percent of the garbage created at this summer's county fair was diverted away from overcrowded landfills.

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Fox News Downplays the Holocaust Museum Killing

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Msnbc, Fox News, Cnn, Von Brunn Holocaust Museum, County Fair, Media Matters, Media News
Eric Boehlert

The Fox News team seemed to lose interest in the Holocaust Museum shooting when it was revealed that von Brunn had strong ties to the Klu Klux Klan.

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