What to look for today…
Today’s the last weekday of the Fair. Can you believe it’s almost over already?! Well as usual, Brian Long (or “B Lo” as Candice Combs and I like to call him) has hooked us up again with the day-of tip sheet. Today’s highlights include the “Farm Animal Frenzy”, a tobacco “mocktion”, a dress that will have you saying “Frankly Scarlett, I DO give a… darn,” a mooooving animal competition, and even a little somethin’ for all you techies hitting the Fair up this weekend.
Read on for details:
- “Javier at the Fair,” Fuquay-Varina High School’s decorated giant chicken, won the People’s Choice Award in the 2008 Farm Animal Frenzy contest at the State Fair. The chicken, with painted-on overalls, garnered 858 online votes to win the popularity contest over 18 other high schools from Wake and Durham counties. The art classes at Fuquay-Varina will receive a gift certificate and supplies from Jerry’s Artarama. The Farm Animal Frenzy is an art competition between area high school art classes and clubs that decorated life-size or larger horses, cows and chickens with the Fair’s theme, “Take Time for a Great Time.” The animals are on display across the fairgrounds during the Fair. “Javier” is outside the Exposition Center.
- Tobacco has been curing in the old log barn during the State Fair. Now it’s time to auction the cured leaf. A mock auction will take place at 2 p.m. in Heritage Circle. Retired auctioneers, warehousemen, buyers and ticket markers will demonstrate the way tobacco was sold in North Carolina for 150 years, before contracts became the chief way for farmers to market their crop. Contact Dale Coats, (919) 477-5498, or Pat Short, (336) 706-9796.
- Francine Francis of Raleigh has created a head-turning, stop-in-your tracks dress. The “Gone With the Wind” inspired period costume is a replica of the green dress worn by Scarlett O’Hara in the Christmas scene of the 1939 movie. The dress and its first-place blue ribbon are on display in the Education Building. The dress is impressive and heavy. It weighs about 30 pounds, which is easy to understand when you hear about all the materials that went into it. Francis used 33 yards of green fabric, 7 yards of black satin, 15 yards of lining, 9 yards of cotton and 30 yards of steel boning for the hoop. Interestingly, even though Francis worked on the dress off and on for several months, the dress isn’t actually hers. Francis made the dress for a friend of hers in Texas. Francis can be reached at (919) 783-5959.
- Dairy cattle compete in the Jim Graham Building. Ayrshires compete at 2 p.m., followed by Brown Swiss and Guernsey at 5 p.m. Contact the Livestock Office, (919) 839-4679.
- On the horizon: The TXT-O-LYMPIX will take place Saturday, Oct. 25, at 6:30 p.m. in the Folk Festival tent near Gate 10. All “texters” must register for the competition in the entry office located at the back entrance of the State Fair administration building near Gate 11. Registration is open Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Contact Nikki Berryman, (919) 839-4513.
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