This year we had a Saturday wedding in the family (Beautiful!) so we couldn't make it up until Sunday. For details on the fair, you should check out some of the blogosphere's Maine bloggers' post from this year and year's past. For us it is a true ritual...one that has grown from my own childhood days vending food at this fair. A ritual that has grown into including my college boyfriend, now husband. That has grown into a touchstone of my first daughter's birthday celebration to the extent that she was devestated that we could not sleep over this year. And.... for now, has converted from us taking in homesteading lectures and political action talks and meeting up with friends to us spending hours in the Children's Area watching sweet puppet shows and jumping in hay.
How one thing, that remains mostly the same, can be experienced in so many different and increasingly wonderful ways over 30 years. Thank you MOFGA.
The forest walk from Parking has hundreds of signs to practice reading |
The Common Ground Fair is on my bucket list. Your state reminds me a bit of Alaska, and if I were to ever leave here Maine is on the top of my list. Baked beans is a great idea for a festival/fair booth.
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