The Kiwanis do one heck of a job throwing a party. Here in Statesboro, the Ogeechee Fair - the Kiwanis' main event of the year - was quite enjoyable last year. It's an ag fair, a celebration of harvest time, a beautiful demonstration of the best parts of Statesboro. I thoroughly enjoyed perusing the arts & crafts, viewing the crops (including COTTON... which I think is SOOOO beautiful, both in the fields where it is especially inspiring to me and in big stacks after it's been harvested... actually, I think cotton deserves its own blog post... but most of the crop has been harvested for this year, so unless I can find some still-beautiful and still-standing fields, I probably won't get to do that post anytime soon). Other things to enjoy at the Ogeechee Fair include: people-watching (oh, do they come out for the fair), pig races, deep-fried everything (I haven't had much experience with the N.C. State Fair, but evidently, they have the same deep-frying habits), and cotton candy (my ultimate FAVE!!! I swear, someone just has to bring me cotton candy & s/he is my bestie for life).
So, obviously, I care deeply for this annual tradition. And I'm incredibly bummed that I was away all last week. I MISSED the ENTIRE Ogeechee Fair. Didn't get to go one single time. And sadly, now it's all packed up & moved out of town. Why do fairs always leave? Why can't there be a year-round fair? We could all promise to go once a month. That wouldn't be that hard for us, would it? I mean, a month between visits to the fair... that seems about right. Let's do that.
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