Like an end-of-garden canning
project, Labor Day clears the way for another season. Similarly, this week’s
em space picks a few favorites from the summer and puts them together.
This is a mixture of items seen on the workday screen and preserved in
files instead of jars with lids. Different people have different tastes,
but maybe some of these excerpts will appeal to you as well as to me.
Amusements at the Logan
County Fair:
Dena Hunter,
12, and her 7-year-old sister, Kara, both of Broadwell, agreed that the
funniest part of the day was when a goat from the petting zoo ate Kara’s
cup as well as the food in it.
– from an article by Cassie Hewitt
Animals for adoption:
Tara is an
older cat. She has all that silliness out of her and is very
communicative. She has an unusual voice, a great purr and loves to cuddle.
– description in caption
At the movies:
Ginger and
the other Chickens hatch plot after plot to escape.
– from review of "Chicken Run"
Beginnings:
Their
project has a first name. It’s O-S-C-A-R.
Their
project has a second name. It’s M-A-Y-E-R.
– from an article by Marty
Ahrends about Zion School entries (including the one by Kelsey and Kaylee
Carnahan) at the State History Fair
Caption comment:
Real
potatoes make real french fries.
– from coverage of the Logan County Fair
Combination of pictures and captions:
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[Nice to see you too!]
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[Fried chicken just opened.]
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– from the Logan County Fair
Fair facts:
In 1853,
members of the Illinois State Agriculture Society decided to have an event
to promote agriculture and mechanical art. Sangamon County donated the use
of 20 acres on Springfield’s west side and contributed $1,000 to cover
expenses. Admission was 25 cents.
The opening
of the first permanently located fair was Sept. 24, 1894, and it ran for
six days. Admission was 50 cents for adults, 75 cents for one person on
horseback and $1.25 for a carriage load of four people.
Currently,
the fairgrounds cover 366 acres and accommodate approximately one million
visitors. Sixty loads of manure are hauled away each day, totaling 1,198
tons.
– from an article by Penny Zimmerman-Wills
about the Illinois State Fair
Photo from the Illinois State Fair:
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[Is it a bird?
Is it a bug? Made of grass clippers, dibble, with reflectors for eyes,
this quirky-looking creature brought chuckles from all who passed him.]
Places to visit:
If you’ve
a notion to visit a place that’s not littered with McDonald’s wrappers
or cigarette butts, if you really have a taste for seeing large, wild
animals someplace other than the zoo, if you enjoy catching northern pike
or northern lights, you’d do well to look into Northwestern Ontario’s
lake-rich wilderness. This place is extraordinary, and the fishing’s not
bad. Not bad at all.
– from an article by Neal Windham
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The massive
stone fireplace, the featured attraction on one wall, was patterned after
those at New Salem, adding to the ambience of the tearoom, which feels
like part old general store, part log cabin and part bed-and-breakfast.
– from an article by Penny
Zimmerman-Wills about the Morning Star Mercantile and Café in Salisbury
Quotes:
Since I didn’t
have the available funds to hire a professional, I was left to my own
devices. A scary thought under the best of circumstances.
– Jeff Mayfield in Sports Talk
"After
she left, George and I talked it over. He said, ‘It sounds like a good
idea.’ I said, ‘But it’s not your head.’"
– Eva Dahmm (quoted in an article by Joan
Crabb about Eva’s cochlear implant)
"She
said it was the best zucchini bread she’d ever tasted!" exclaimed
Abrigail Sasse as she met up with her parents, David and Gail Apel-Sasse,
following her judging session.
– from an article by Marty Ahrends about
local youth competing at the Illinois State Fair
Titles:
With Produce
Row on Row
The Slender
Spires That Pierce the Sky
Owls and
Bats and Hunchback Cats
– themes of arrangements in the floriculture
class at the Logan County Fair
Tongue fun:
Pickle
pointers
Pickle and
pickle product problems
– from the University of Illinois Extension
in Logan County
Quirks:
Obituaries
on the LDN site are located at live/people/obit.htm.
Someone who died had a son and a
stepson with the same first name.
Typos:
One day the
state office that reports the latest winning numbers for Lotto and Little
Lotto sent a set for the Lottle Lotto.
Personal typos tend to be more
major. One Friday evening I decided to stop back at the office to make a
correction in a case of mistaken identity. I'd spelled out the
abbreviation L.C.C. as Lincoln Correctional Center instead of Lincoln
Christian College. While I was at it, someone alerted me to another
mix-up. Because of a problem I’d had with bulleted paragraphs, an item
in the marriage license category showed three names together: one male and
two females.
Writing:
As several long articles
arrived, I saw an informal editorial remark indicating that there must
have been a sale on words that week.
[compiled
by Mary
Krallmann]
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