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FARM 1947 Community Fair Day

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FARM 1947 COMMUNITY Fair Day
September 27, 1947

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INTRODUCTION

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.” It continues today as an annual event at the School.

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 waxed and waned in the School, the community, and the nation.

CONTENTS: 1947 Community Fair Day Handouts

[01] List of Exhibit Prizes. Farm and Home” and “Special” Classifications are listed with the amount of the cash or book award for each.

PHOTOGRAPHS: A place will be set aside so that family groups may have their pictures taken together. … The charge will be at the rate of .50 for an 8 x 10 enlargement, or three for one dollar.

[02] Staff Responsibilities for Fair Day, including:

Steering Committee Host: Mr. [H.R.S.] Benjamin [PMSS Director]
Steering Committee: [William] Hayes, [Arthur W.] Dodd
Master of Ceremonies: Mr. Hayes
Health Clinic: Dr. Elizabeth [Henderson], Miss [Grace] Rood, Miss Goodnow
…And more. Also, Student Help, Purchasing, Tentative Program.

[03] September 22, 1947. To “Friends” from the Fair Day Committee. Notice of correction to the List of Exhibit Prizes:

““Theblue ribbons will be awarded to all first prize winners in addition to the cash prize, as is customary at the State Fairs. Second awards will receive the red ribbon and third prize will receive the white ribbon.

[04] Handout sheet for visitors to sing-along. Includes SCHOOL SONG (“Across These Hills”) and the traditional Fair Day song, “HEIGH-HO … Come to the Fair.”

HEIGH-HO …. COME TO THE FAIR

The sun is a-shining to welcome the day,
Heigh-ho …. Come to the Fair
The folk are all singing so merry and gay,
Heigh-ho …. Come to the Fair
All the stalls on the green are so fine as can be
With trinkets and tokens so pretty to see,
So its come then, maidens and men,
To the Fair in the pride of the morning.
So deck yourselves out in your finest array,
With a heigh-ho …. Come to the Fair.

The fiddlers are playing the tune that you know; etc.
The drums are all beating, away let us go, etc.
There’ll be racing and chasing from morning to night.
And roundabouts turning to left and to right,
So its come then, maidens and men,
To the Fair in the pride of the morning.
So lock up your house, there’ll be plenty of fun, etc.

For love making too, if so be you’ve a mind, etc.
For hearts that are happy are loving and kind, etc.
If “Haste to the Wedding,” and fiddles should play,
I warrant you’ll dance to the end of the day, —
So its come then, maidens and men, to the Fair in the
pride of the morning
The sun is a -shining to welcome the day.
With a heigh-ho ….. Come to the Fair.