county fair
noun
: a fair usually held annually at a set location in a county especially to exhibit local agricultural products and livestock
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Over 100 years ago, this cake won the county fair competition in Columbus, Georgia, and was later featured in the literary classic, To Kill A Mockingbird.
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Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 18 Nov. 2025
America is your neighbors volunteering to run local elections or joining the PTA or helping out with a Main Street parade or a county fair or a town-wide fish fry.
—Billy Ray, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
Her father had bought it at the county fair; the vender, mistaking it for yet another replica Native ceremonial mask, had all but given it away.
—David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
The heart of the issue here, Larson said, is that Ramsey County is misguided in seeking to avoid differential treatment for the fair versus other outside organizations, because a county fair fundamentally is different from other outside organizations, legally speaking.
—Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025
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Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 18 Nov. 2025
America is your neighbors volunteering to run local elections or joining the PTA or helping out with a Main Street parade or a county fair or a town-wide fish fry.
—Billy Ray, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
Her father had bought it at the county fair; the vender, mistaking it for yet another replica Native ceremonial mask, had all but given it away.
—David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
The heart of the issue here, Larson said, is that Ramsey County is misguided in seeking to avoid differential treatment for the fair versus other outside organizations, because a county fair fundamentally is different from other outside organizations, legally speaking.
—Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025
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“County fair.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/county%20fair. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.
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