The 4-H Fair

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It can safely be said that in most local areas there is no time during the year when 4-H gets more publicity or promotion than during the week of the 4-H fair or county fair.

Anyone who has never been to a county fair... you are missing out on a truly American event. The excitement... from the midway, from the grandstand, from the judging arena. The sounds and smells... the squealing of pigs, bleating of sheep, smells of the cattle barn... or, cotton candy, melodious sounds of the merry-go-round, the barking of the auctioneer selling a steer or a prize-winning cake. The dust, the hot dogs, the smiles when that 4-H ribbon is presented... it is a menagerie of everything good mixed together. It is a family affair. A place where 4-H friends often become better friends... even if they are competing. It is a part of 4-H that no matter how much 4-H changes or modernizes, won't go away... nor should it. Although the typical 4-H fair may not always construe exactly the image the progressive 4-H leaders may desire, it represents something even greater. It represents a traditional value that would be hard to replicate in any other way.