A fancy, feisty lot of mules and horses tore up the loamy dark track yesterday in Ferndale, to the delight of the hootin’, wagerin’, drinkin’, beef-chewin’, funnel-cake-inhalin’, corndog-swillin’ crowd that packed the grounds and stadium. If you were the person who forgot to be there, check out what you missed (but don’t despair, there’s more […]
Humboldt County Fair
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Moooovers and Shakers
There once was a little girl who dreamed of being a princess. A dairy princess. One day this little girl was in her work clothes, cooking giant meals with her mother for the dairymen, throwing feed to the chickens, grooming her 4-H beast, or bucking hay, feeding calves and laying down clean straw in the […]
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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. […]