Town #49 Brooklyn

Saturday, August 9, 2009
Brooklyn Country Fair

Country fairs are fun but one a year is really enough. We decided to visit the Brooklyn Fair this time. We picked a beautiful, sunny day and headed over (admission $14). We browsed the booths and watched some demonstrations, then got hungry. We'd passed some food booths with bad-for-you but yummy-looking things and started backwards, with dessert. Fried dough with powdered sugar. Hhmmm. A little farther on we saw waffle french fries with ranch dressing and bacon bits, which we shared. Deadly but delicious. The last thing that we got was a maple milkshake, which we also shared. It was only mildly mapley.

Then we headed for the fiber and craft demonstration buildings and I was fascinated with the weaving competition. Two teams of women had four hours to take raw wool from a sheep, clean and spin it, make yarn out of it, and weave it into a table runner.

The women were happy to inform visitors of their experience and the competition. The members of the team I spent most of the time watching were younger than the other team and less experienced; they didn't really expect to win this year but enjoyed the competition. They'll practice and try again next year.

We watched horses get new shoes. That was a fascinating process!