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FARM 1920 Community Fair Day

FARM 1920 COMMUNITY Fair Day
September 27, 1920

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TAGS: 1920 Community Fair Day, Farmer’s Meetings, farmers, Community Fair Days, fairs, Fair Day, Harlan County KY, Mary E. Sweeny, College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky, home demonstration, Gertrude McCheyne, C,W. Mathews, Agricultural Experiment Station, crafts, foodways, prizes, garden products, poultry, livestock, games, Delia Creech, Henry Creech, vegetable dying

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The Community Fair Day is one of many annual events that has a long history at Pine Mountain Settlement School. It started in 1917 as an extension of the Harlan County Fair and the School’s “Farmer’s Day.” 

While the fundamental program of the Fair has remained remarkably consistent, the scale and scope of the Fair have varied from year to year as interest in fairs has waxed and waned in the School, the community, and the nation.

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EXCERPT: 1920 Community Fair Day in the PMSS Catalog

An early mention of the Community Fair Day is found in the 1920 Pine Mountain Settlement School Catalog. It suggests that the annual event had been made an official event at the school and had been in place for least several years.

Its papers of incorporation give the School entire freedom in this large field of rural service. The Board of Trustees, an independent organization composed of men and women in different parts of the country, desires the School to co-operate in every way with the community, to help solve the problem of wholesome social diversions and to share in the religious life of the community by Sunday School work and non-sectarian Christian association. So it is that on all the great days of the year the School’s grounds are the gathering place for the people of the surrounding country. There is the Community Christmas Tree, the Fourth of July Celebration, the Community Fair, and the weekly parties for the young people of the neighborhood.

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CONTENTS: 1920 Community Fair Day Flyer

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A Community Fair will be held on the grounds of the Pine Mountain Settlement School on Saturday, September 27th. Miss Mary E. Sweeny of the College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky; Miss Gertrude McCheyne, the new state leader in Home Demonstration work connected with the University; and C.W. Mathews of the Agricultural Experiment Station, will be the guests of the School on that day and will speak in the morning. Eighty classes of exhibits are listed, and there should be a fine display of live stock, farm and garden produce, canning, cooking and handwork.

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[Flyer] “Bring your Dinners and Let Us Have a Good Day.” SPEAKING in the MORNING – GAMES AND RACES IN AFTERNOON.” List of entries and prizes. Includes Live Stock ; Farm and Garden ; Canning ; Cooking ; Handwork ; Best Collection of Flowers ; Best Story ; Best Writing ;

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[Continuation of flyer.]

GALLERY: 1920 Community Fair Day Program

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Return To:
EVENTS Guide to Past Events
FARM AND FARMING Guide
FARM Guide to Community Fair Days
FARM COMMUNITY FAIR DAY History

See Also:
ART and CRAFT Guide
COMMUNITY – What is Community? – Post

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