 Vacations 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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