A large crowd of fans of horse-racing and ladies in hats showed up for Saturday’s free admission to the eighth annual Ladies Hat Day at the Races at the Humboldt County Fair in Ferndale. The hat wearers moved onto the racetrack for the Parade of Hats competition in “Hatagories” that included Most Glamorous, Best Racing […]
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Re-Cap of Ladies Hat Day
The seventh annual Ladies Hat Day at the Races at the Humboldt County Fair on Saturday attracted more than 100 glamorous, outrageous and funny competitors for some big prizes for their hat creations. See some of the feats of fashion in the slideshow below. Ladies Hat Day “Hatagories” included Most Glamorous, Best Racing Theme, Funniest […]
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I Lost 100 Bucks at the Horse Races and Had a Gay Old Time Doing It
The penultimate day of the Humboldt County Fair in Ferndale is the best day, Ladies’ Hat Day. As the name suggests, women in hats abound — ranging from the simple imitations of Christine McVie to resplendent facsimiles of Eliza Doolittle’s chapeau at the Embassy Ball. There are a number of contests and a parade. It’s […]
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Top That
Wearing formal hat wear on the sixth annual Ladies Hat Day at the Humboldt County Fair on a hot, smokey Saturday got you free admission into the horse races and a chance to compete for some big prizes. See some of the feats of fashion in the slideshow below. More than 50 women, men and children […]
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Home Track
“Here you go, darlin.” The waitress sets a BLT and fries in front of Rod Kausen and returns to the kitchen for a bottle of ketchup. Bacon hangs lackadaisically from neat bread triangles. “You don’t mind if I eat?” Kausen asks. We’re meeting on what Kausen calls his “busy day off.” He wears a lot […]
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Fair Game
Who doesn’t love a fair? Rides, games, fried food, livestock, crafts and more fried food. For a brief moment, I felt like I’d covered all that with at Redwood Acres and the rodeo in Fortuna. But the Humboldt County Fair, now in its 117th year, is the mother of them all. It’s on from Aug. […]