Dixie Classic Fair

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Waiting for milking time …

  Each autumn, the Dixie Classic Fair returns to Winston-Salem (NC);  2012 was it's 130th year.  The fair began in the former town of Salem as a grain exposition in 1882. There are competitions for everything imaginable, one of the longest standing is the Dairy Cattle competition populated by young competitors who spend a year grooming their cows for show.  There is a lot of  "down-time", some of which is waiting for your place in line to…

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December 27, 2012
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High priced chicken …

Darlene Hobbs, of Lancaster, SC, polishes the beak of her Brahma chicken, not her Brahma bull.  She reports that she spends hours getting her fowl ready for show which includes polishing their beaks, legs, and feathers.  Darlene travels to over a dozen shows a year, "because I just love it." Fowl fanciers flocked to Forsyth County, NC this past weekend for one of several national fowl shows.  The local organization, the Forsyth Fowl Fanciers sponsors…

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November 30, 2011
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Dixie Classic Fair celebrates 129 years of tradition … where everyone’s a hero

[portfolio_slideshow] Since 1882, farmers, homemakers, and families have been plowing the isles of the entertainment and paddocks of family agriculture and livestock to celebrate the fall cornucopia of Piedmont North Carolina.  Originally held downtown in the Brown's Tobacco Warehouse at Main and Fifth Streets, the Fair was once known as the Piedmont Tobacco Fair to coincide with the harvest season of the region's main crop and industry - tobacco. Food and its consumption have become one of…

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October 3, 2011