Faith and Dan at the Bolton Fair

Dan and Faith at The Bolton Fair

This is the second September that we've been living in Bolton, and the second time we went to the fair. The fair is one of the oldest around, and this year was the 113th year it's been held.

The fair is quite the community effort, with the town fields near the center of town, which stretch for about a mile, being totally occupied by all kinds of events, crafts merchants, rides, commercial exhibitors, and so forth.

This year the weather was quite nice, as we had cool fall weather, with sunny and partly sunny skies. We watched a little of the fiddling contest, watched both horse team pulling and oxen pulling, saw some of the equestrian events, watched our friends Roger and Robyn Perkins (W1OJ and KN1F) and lots of their friends exibit their miniature horses, and even got a demo of a chipper shredder... You name it, it was probably at the fair.

We entered lots of stuff in the agricultural exhibits, here are the results:

First Place: Parsnips
First Place: French Marigolds
Second Place: Potted Herb Plant
Second Place: Arrangement of Fresh Cut Herbs
Third Place: Tomato Sauce (canned)
Third Place: Beets
Third Place: Green Peppers (other than Bell) - entered Anaheim peppers
Third Place: Cherry Tomatoes
Third Place: Unclassified Vegetables - Entered something called Vitamin Green, which looks like a cross between Bok Choi and Spinach.

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