OT: The Best Fair In CT.

[Sonofabeach]

With the county Fair season just finishing up, who has the best fair's. My Pick would be Durham Fair.

 

[Bryan Lord]

Durham fair was way too crowded to enjoy.

 

[8893]

Since the demise of the Danbury Fair I think the Durham Fair has been the best I've been to in the state. Guilford Fair is decent, and Goshen Fair is nice for a small one. Only thing that has reminded me of Danbury Fair though has been the Big E, but that's not in CT and it is a bigger undertaking.

Worst I've been to in the state is the North Branford Potato and Corn Festival.

 

[UConn17]

Hebron Harvest Fair

 

[sledog]

Who won the cowsh!t shoveling contest?

 

[Kitaman]

Durham fair was way too crowded to enjoy.

Yeah my wife and I took a lazy Sunday afternoon drive to the Durham fair this year. We turned around due to all the traffic. Plus we had already been to the Big E. There's got to be a shortcut or back road way in somewhere.

 

[vtmikeb]

Brian

 

[Deepster]

Listen. If it’s Monday morning and a co-worker says “How was your weekend?” and you’re happy saying “It was awesome! I went to the Hebron Fair. I watched a pig race and ate a deep fried Snickers bar and talked to this obese guy with a mullet and a t-shirt that had an airbrushed American flag on it”? Good for you. I’d rather kill myself than experience that.

And those awful little petting zoos with those disease ridden animals? I remember once when my daughter was petting a sheep at the Berlin Fair and the thing had green ooze dripping out of its lady parts. I’m no veterinarian, but I feel pretty safe saying that’s not healthy. And the people that work the rides and game booths? There’s no way those rides are safe. We have highly trained enlisted men that perform rigorous safety checks on our military aircraft and, occasionally, they still screw something up. I’m supposed to get on a ferris wheel that some strung out meth head just put together overnight with a rusty monkey wrench? Nope.

I hate fairs.

 

[huskiesNhoos]

Used to think the durham fair was huge when I went to school there. Then I came back last year after 10 years away and boy did my perception change.

Still can't beat it in my opinion. Has the nostalgia thing going for it

 

[8893]

Listen. If it’s Monday morning and a co-worker says “How was your weekend?” and you’re happy saying “It was awesome! I went to the Hebron Fair. I watched a pig race and ate a deep fried Snickers bar and talked to this obese guy with a mullet and a t-shirt that had an airbrushed American flag on it”? Good for you. I’d rather kill myself than experience that.

And those awful little petting zoos with those disease ridden animals? I remember once when my daughter was petting a sheep at the Berlin Fair and the thing had green ooze dripping out of its lady parts. I’m no veterinarian, but I feel pretty safe saying that’s not healthy. And the people that work the rides and game booths? There’s no way those rides are safe. We have highly trained enlisted men that perform rigorous safety checks on our military aircraft and, occasionally, they still screw something up. I’m supposed to get on a ferris wheel that some strung out meth head just put together overnight with a rusty monkey wrench? Nope.

I hate fairs.

Even if all that is true--and I'll admit I've had all those experiences and more--I submit that your life would be less rich for not having those stories to experience and tell. Same way I feel about driving across the country. Do I love seeing nothing but cornfields for an entire day and then some? Not necessarily. But I think it's important to experience it so I can have some understanding about why people from Iowa are how they are. If nothing else, I look at the fair as a sociology experiment I like to check in on every now and again.

I also love the fall and remember the excitement as a kid, and I like to go and see my own kids' excitement--be it for the animals (most of them healthy at the fairs I've been to, but no pigs in Guilford this year I'm told, unfortunately), the guilty treats, the midway rides and games, the strange products and people, or the chance to laugh and flirt with their classmates.

I agree with you about the rides though. I don't trust them. I love amusement park rides, especially roller coasters, but my rule is not getting on anything that gets put up and taken down on the same weekend. I hold my breath when my kids go on them, but thankfully they've become so damned expensive that they are limited to only a few rides a year, and only my oldest wants to go on the more dangerous ones.

My wife and kids went this year but I missed it and I'm kind of bummed that I did. I like the ritual I guess.

 

[mauconnfan]

Berlin

 

[THC]

Berlin

This is really the only correct answer.

 

[Deepster]

Even if all that is true--and I'll admit I've had all those experiences and more--I submit that your life would be less rich for not having those stories to experience and tell. Same way I feel about driving across the country. Do I love seeing nothing but cornfields for an entire day and then some? Not necessarily. But I think it's important to experience it so I can have some understanding about why people from Iowa are how they are. If nothing else, I look at the fair as a sociology experiment I like to check in on every now and again.

I also love the fall and remember the excitement as a kid, and I like to go and see my own kids' excitement--be it for the animals (most of them healthy at the fairs I've been to, but no pigs in Guilford this year I'm told, unfortunately), the guilty treats, the midway rides and games, the strange products and people, or the chance to laugh and flirt with their classmates.

I agree with you about the rides though. I don't trust them. I love amusement park rides, especially roller coasters, but my rule is not getting on anything that gets put up and taken down on the same weekend. I hold my breath when my kids go on them, but thankfully they've become so damned expensive that they are limited to only a few rides a year, and only my oldest wants to go on the more dangerous ones.

My wife and kids went this year but I missed it and I'm kind of bummed that I did. I like the ritual I guess.

How about if I drive by the fair, roll down my car window and throw 80 bucks out the window instead? I'll be healthier and have one less day of my life spent interacting with the dredge of CT.

 

[zyron]

Who won the cowsh!t shoveling contest?

Palatine, but he used bullsh!t.

 

[Sonofabeach]

Yeah my wife and I took a lazy Sunday afternoon drive to the Durham fair this year. We turned around due to all the traffic. Plus we had already been to the Big E. There's got to be a shortcut or back road way in somewhere.

Take 95 south to route 77 Guilford, I think it's exit 58. Go north into Durham there will be a BIG farm on the left there you park and the bus brings you to the fair.