Billed as a State Fair, this is really more like one of our County Fairs, perhaps even a little smaller. I didn't try any of the fried food on a stick. I'm still gunshy about that fair fare after an episode of campylobactor last year. I did see a booth selling Alaskan cheese curds. That is just WRONG. I definately have to ship back some Wisconsin cheese curds to Debbie Eberhardt, as I have been teased unmercilessly about them. Heck, I might even throw in a cheesehead hat! At any rate, she told me about an awesome hockey quilt on display, so of course, we had to go.
There was giant produce on display and the requisite 4H type crafts and food products but we watched the quilt show. Two women wearing white gloves carefully turned the hung quilts as a third woman read their descriptions and "back stories." I do have to be careful about asking for someone's "back story" by the way, which must highlight my advanced media awareness, as I received a very puzzled look from one woman who thought I was asking about her sore back! The hockey quilt was commissioned by the player's mother and had his numbers in the corner and was made up of his old hockey jerseys, with an appliqued hockey player in the center. Another amazing quilt was a bargello (don't ask me what that means) of the aurora borealis that was made as a wedding gift by a bride to her husband. We sat on folding chairs in a little building like a Town Hall and loved every minute of it!
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