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Purebred and Homegrown: America's County Fairs
Purebred and Homegrown America's County Fairs
Author: Drake Hokanson, Carol Kratz
Visit America’s county fairs as they are vividly evoked through the images, stories, and voices of the people who make them happen?4-H kids, fair managers, pie judges, farmers and ranchers, rodeo queens, entertainers, food vendors, midway pitchmen, and assorted local characters. Illustrated throughout with stunning color photographs, Pu...  more »is an affectionate and thoughtful look at the history of county fairs, and their tradition and persistence today, despite the diminished number of Americans who earn their living from agriculture. Author-photographers Drake Hokanson and Carol Kratz traveled 40,000 miles across America from Maine to Alaska, from Georgia to California, visiting ninety county fairs in thirty-five states. By day they interviewed, observed, and photographed; at night they camped among the carnies and the teens showing sheep, under the rollercoaster, and next to the chicken barn. The story they tell goes beyond the stereotype of fairs as quaint anachronisms obsessed with giant pumpkins and instead reveals the county fair as an important institution that helped define us as a nation of free-thinking, self-reliant, community-focused people. They present the nearly 200-year-old county fair as a fountainhead of American ideals and rural life, as a place of reunion, and as perhaps the most traditional of all American celebrations. Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association
ISBN-13: 9780299228200
ISBN-10: 0299228207
Publication Date: 9/22/2008
Pages: 200
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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