Minnesota County Fairs Kids, Cows, Carnies, and Chow
Minnesota County Fairs Kids, Cows, Carnies, and Chow is a fun look at the county fairs throughout Minnesota in pictures that highlights the fun of the fair.
Minnesota County Fairs Kids, Cows, Carnies, and Chow is a picture book with photographs by Susan Lambert Miller with a forward by Shannon Olson. The book highlights several years of the county fairs throughout Minnesota with a fun look at fairs from behind the camera.
4-H is a youth organization that stresses youth running the groups with adults backing them up and supporting them were needed. 4-H has a great history that has been going strong for over a hundred years with no real start point, just a sort of beginning with colleges discovering that youth were the future of farming.
4-H has been going strong with their foundation in universities across the county and led by dedicated adults and youth willing to devote their time and hearts to an idea that together they can make things happen in their own future. The 4-H Pledge exemplifies this standard of youth giving what they can so that the organization can help all that want or need the help in areas such as agriculture, business, science and technology.
The 4-H Pledge:
"I Pledge my Head to clearer thinking,
my Heart to greater loyalty,
my Hands to larger service,
and my Health to better living,
for my club, my community, my country, and my world."
4-H has been evolving along with current education to include computers, rocketry and digital photography to name a few of the newer project areas. 4-H is not only about agriculture or farming, they are now stressing modern science and technology as technology becomes a standard in today’s society.
The state fair is a culmination of the projects that youth work on throughout the year to show off their knowledge and expertise in areas they choose. Youth are encouraged to pick and work on projects they want and choose any area they wish to learn more about and at the fair they show off what they have learned. A project can be anything they would like such a display, an animal they have raised or a work of art that they have created and will show to judges and describe their project.
The judges give ribbons according to not only the display or project but their knowledge and what they have learned so that the judging is more about what the youth have learned and less about a final project. The final projects are judged then displayed and shown for all to see at the county fair and the best of the projects in each area are chosen to go to the state fair.
The county fairs are a great way to see what local kids have come up with for projects and the broad range of talent and skill they have. Minnesota County Fairs celebrates this talent at county fairs as well as the fun rides, great food on a stick in many cases and fun times shared with friends and family.
The picture book Minnesota County Fairs Kids, Cows Carnies, and Chow highlights these fun times in a 114 page book filled with great pictures showing the authors view of the fair. From kids showing off their prized pets to talent shows and even the fun food images abound of the fair from one end of Minnesota to the other.
Susan Miller is a nationally recognized photographer that spent weekends going to numerous fairs to capture as many as she could in pictures for this book. Minnesota County Fairs is a great way to see a quick glimpse of those fairs and the great times people have along with the fun things that happen at fairs you may not be able to get to.
Minnesota County Fairs Kids, Cows, Carnies, and Chow is a great peek at most of the county fairs across the state of Minnesota by Susan Miller with a great introduction by Shannon Olson.