The Jackson County Fair

Jackson, Michigan hosts a very fine local fair every year. The fair includes rides, animal exhibits, art judging, veggie and culinary judging and damn good vendor food. Below are pictures that show the interesting areas of the fair and their descriptions:











The main fair building houses all the art projects, culinary projects, veggies and antiques for judging and show. Inside the building, a beautiful indoor waterfall and garden greets people as they walk in.













The water flows along down a small indoor creek and then (i believe) is recirculated back up to the waterfall.












During the fair 4H kids show off their animals and hope for a ribbon and a chance to sell them. Bunnies are always one of the more popular animals. This year, the rabbits were housed with the roosters and turkeys. Most of the bunnies were sleeping when I went in to take pictures but this little guy was awake so i snapped a quick one of him before he could move.



This horse's sign on the stall said that he MAY bite. It never ceases to amaze me all the dim people who will pet the horses anyway. Many flocked over to pet this horse and even let their kids pet him. They were lucky he was in a good friendly mood. When a sign says an animal may bite, it usually means you should keep your hands away from it. Anywhoo, the horses were absolutely beautiful and ranged in size from large/tall to shorter than me. Unfortunately I didn't see any draft horses this year (they're my favourites). The economy might be to blame for some missing breeds of horse, cow, rooster, and bunny. The animals weren't selling for as much this year.


This here is the Midway, where the majority of the food vendors, rides and games are. It looks a bit quiet here because my boyfriend and I got to the fair real early so we could beat the heat. Admission was a reasonably low price but for an all-day ride bracelet, the price skyrocketed to $18 per person. We opted not to ride the rides.
The food is usually pretty good at the fair. The french fries are the absolute best and they offer vinegar, salt and ketchup to put on them. The elephant ears are also superb as are the Philly steak and cheese sandwiches.

Along with food vendors, there's minny shops and political/religious information tables. This picture here was taken at one of the more impressive shop tables. The woman tending to the table was somewhat hippy like, much like what she was selling. She had upteen some odd Buddha figures for sale, glass and cermaic dragons, various hippyish clothing items and countless other things.
My poor boyfriend was roped into a small lecture by a Baptist Religion table attendee. He left the table with a bit of literature on the Baptist beliefs and a strange awkward feeling. Amongst the other tables for religion and politics were the Democratic table, the Republican table, and the Right to Life table (they hand out disturbing pink plastic fetus figures to anyone and everyone who looks at them).

And that was my journey to the fair this year. I'll post the rest of my pictures from the fair later on in another post. Most of those pics are horses, cows, and randomness.