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Visit the County Fair and Pick Up a Few Calories
The Inuit have 50 names for snow cones. Last year, a nice woman told me she had attended the State Fair on each of its 12-day run. She planned on doing the same thing this year. She lives closer to the fairgrounds than I do. A trip to the State Fair eats up an entire day for me and part of the next. The sounds of the fair become my three-day earworm. I’ve engaged in purposeful enterprises at the State Fair. I’ve spun stories, answered questions about birds, given talks about nature, manned booths, given away tchotchkes, dodged a record number of kids wielding cotton candy, stood in a line longer than the Great Wall of China to buy chocolate-covered potato chips for my mother-in-law, and had a scarecrow named after me at the Horticulture Building. Few resumes include that last bit.
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