State Fair Fun
Sep 8, 2015
South Dakota Magazine finished its 2015 “Fair Tour” with a Labor Day weekend visit to the South Dakota State Fair in Huron. We met all sorts of interesting people. Here are just a few of them. Photos by Bernie Hunhoff.
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For two generations, the Smith family has provided free parking to fair-goers at their yard just west of the fairgrounds. Mark Smith (pictured) says his dad started the tradition because he sympathized with hard-working families who had to spend money even before they reached the gates. -
Longtime state fair promoter and Huron historian Bob Glanzer gave a presentation on “Wagon Trail Tales" at the Arts & Ed Building. He’s holding a brain-tanned buffalo hide. -
State Fair board member Tom Harmon, aka Dakota Kernel, helped to judge a bird-calling contest at the Northwestern Energy Freedom Stage. -
Miss South Dakota State Fair Katelyn Bartz gave some encouragement to Mustafa Saeed of Huron, a plucky contestant in the chicken clucking contest. -
Bob Rennolet of Menno was a tough competitor in the rooster-crowing competition. -
Joan Muller of Davis and Devin Pierce of Bemidji, Minn., teamed up on the rooster crowing division. Joan admitted to a conflict of interest with poultry calling, noting that she’s active in the pork producers association. -
Sherwin Linton and his wife, Pam, thrilled country music fans with numerous performances on the Centennial Stage. They also welcomed our magazine staff to the stage for a South Dakota Quiz Bowl competition. Anyone know the longest unnavigable river in the world? -
Our magazine’s Heidi Marsh visited with readers. -
Katie Hunhoff (right) and Laura Johnson Andrews hawked “Fair Tour” t-shirts. -
When we ran out of magazine samples and books, Heidi took a break before we loaded up the ’49 Chevy truck and headed for home.
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Mark is cool guy, I can picture him doing this, besides, he loves cats.