EGAD
or, (de)mythologizing the fetish of placewherein our unlikely hero composes a series of
empirical geo-anthrospatial dispatches, aimed at establishing just where
he is, and perhaps even why it matters
The Minnesota State Fair is probably the most visible of the various ways that this state employs to remind the world that it remains an agricultural state, and that that's okay. Part swap meet (they'll try to sell you a tractor in the back lots), part Carnival of Oddities (c.f. the Hall of Grain Art, or the infamous butter sculptures), part rides-and-fried-food-on-a-stick festival, I've found it to be a suprisingly representative microcosm of Minnesota.
So there's four days left to this year's fair. Anyone up for an expedition in the next few days?
Posted by Milligan at September 1, 2005 04:05 PM | TrackBackBeen already to eat my way from one side to the other. But I'd possibly be up for it again this weekened.
Posted by: John at September 1, 2005 07:24 PM (Permalink)Will there be giant statues made of butter?!?!?!!?!
Posted by: meridith at September 2, 2005 10:37 AM (Permalink)Giant butter statues, I have been led to believe, do exist. Of what I could find online, though, I see only statues of normal size (for statues; not so much normal for butter).
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2003/08/25_newsroom_buttersculpture/
Posted by: Milligan at September 2, 2005 11:28 AM (Permalink)