country fairs
Agricultural community celebrations
Country fairs are outdoor festivals celebrating rural life, typically held annually in agricultural communities.
They feature livestock competitions, craft exhibits, carnival rides, food vendors, and agricultural displays.
The county fair is a particularly American institution, marking the end of summer with prize pumpkins, pie-eating contests, and 4-H demonstrations: We took the kids to the county fair to see the pig judging.
- corn dogsBattered frankfurters on sticks
- cotton candySpun sugar confection
- carouselRevolving platform with seats
- livestockDomesticated farm animals
- blue ribbonHighest competition award
folk dancing · quilting · crops · beekeeping · cheese-making · jam · dairy products · local folklore · barbecue · pie · preserves · farm machinery · pottery · prize · fireworks displays · hayrides · leatherworking · bake off
- rural activitieshayrides, corn mazes, pumpkin patches, farm tours, apple picking
- rural lifefarms, village, villages, farming, farmhouses
- pastoral lifeshepherds, shepherding, herders, herding, herdsmen
- Rural Americafarm, barns, heartland, countryside, Midwest
- New HampshireConcord, Manchester, Portsmouth, Nashua, Dover