Monday, August 03, 2009
 
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Old-time, old-fashioned Logan County Fair coverage starting today

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[August 03, 2009]  Old-timers tell some great stories about the early years of the Logan County Fair. For one, they tell how the entire community outside of those 40 acres came to a stop and how everyone spent the week at the fairgrounds.

HardwareVacations were planned around fair dates, trips out of town were postponed, and diets were placed on temporary hold. Merchants gathered their wares, closed their shops and reopened them along the midway as tent after tent wound around the grounds.

The entire community, rural and urban, came together and celebrated its roots in the livestock and crops from the rich, dark soil of the county.

The coverage of those early fairs was also something special. From front cover to back, the local paper had results, stories, blips, blurbs and anything else that had anything to do with the fair.

For that one week, nothing was as important as the Logan County Fair.

Certainly there is still a great deal of fair coverage as all local media give a great deal of time to reporting. But every year there are pictures that were never taken, stories that were never told and memories that weren't recorded in order to be remembered.

This year LDN will try to bring back that old-time, old-fashioned coverage of our fair.

We will have six photographers covering the fair at various times. We will have four reporters gathering stories, quips, quotes and anything of interest to fair enthusiasts.

We will try this year to cover as many fair events as possible.

On Saturday, there was the dog show. We were there.

This morning, Monday, winners in 4-H floriculture and horticulture will be announced, and the 4-H livestock will be coming in for judging. Three of us are there.

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During this week, thanks to our great sponsors, we will promise at a minimum 100 full-color photographs, all of which can be enlarged. We will give you fair stories and fair info that our staff will be gathering every day. And of course we will give you all the fair results just as soon as they are made available. We are an Internet paper. We don't have to wait until tomorrow, and when possible, we won't wait to tell you what you want to know today.

To make your fair reading and viewing as enjoyable as possible, we will have all fair-related news and pictures daily in LDN's Top Stories. The next day new pictures and stories will replace those, and previous information and pictures will be archived in our special fair section next to Rural Review. The archives with pages of coverage will all be there for you to look at and enjoy over and over without having to do any surfing. Published results and events will stay there throughout fair week and beyond.

Even pooling all of our resources, we won't be able to be everywhere, but we will promise you this: We will try like it hasn't been tried in decades.

Unless you are an old-timer, you have never seen the Logan County Fair covered like this.

It is our promise to you.

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