The Corner

All’s Fair

Do the rest of you experience this? I write a post slamming a certain porcine Manhattanite writer/blogger in which by way of introduction I describe a visit to the Allentown Fair — excuse me, the Great Allentown Fair — and then all of my mail is about the Fair, which wasn’t really the part I was stirred up about.

Anyway, it seems people who grew up like I did have sweet memories of the Fair as a youth, as do I, despite my experience in the sideshow trailer. And my question is, do people still go to Fairs? Or have theme parks crushed them like so much flattened hay on the fairgrounds dirt? I fear the latter.

Warren BellWarren Bell was nominated June 20, 2006, by President George W. Bush to be a member of the Board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for the remainder of a ...
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