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Smokey's Greater Shows is a traveling carnival midway company based in Fryeburg, Maine, United States. It provides amusement rides, games and concessions for local, county and state fairs throughout Maine. [1] It appeared at the Fryeburg Fair for over forty years, before its partnership ended in 2022. [2]
The fair is a 501(c)(3) organization. The Fryeburg Fair features livestock shows, harness racing, horse pulling, antique farm and forestry equipment displays and demonstrations, horticultural and culinary contests and displays, a petting zoo, agricultural vendor displays, live musical acts, amusement rides, and food stands.
The fair began in 1977 in Litchfield, Maine. In 1981, it moved to Windsor, Maine and in 1996, MOFGA purchased 200 acres in Unity, Maine, where the fair now takes place yearly. [3] The first fair was held at the Litchfield Fairgrounds as a fundraiser for MOFGA. It raised $22,000. [4] In 2016, a Portland Press Herald article about the fair's ...
The oldest state fair is that of The Fredericksburg Agricultural Fair, established in 1738, and is the oldest fair in Virginia and the United States. [1] The first U.S. state fair was the New York, held in 1841 in Syracuse, and has been held annually since. [2] The second state fair was in Detroit, Michigan, which ran from 1849 [3] to 2009. [4] [5]
ELIOT, Maine — Winter Wonders 2024-25 is a light show experience in Eliot, Maine, beginning Friday, Nov. 22, from 4:15-8 p.m. Organizers say with over 2 million lights the 14-acre forest display ...
The Union Fair is an annual agricultural fair in Union, Maine. [1] It began in 1869 and, since 1886, all fairs in Knox County have taken place in Union. [2] [3] No fair was held in 1917–18, 1942–45 nor 2020. For many years the fair started on the third Saturday before Labor Day and run for eight days closing on the following Saturday. The ...
This is an incomplete list of festivals in the United States with articles on Wikipedia, as well as lists of other festival lists, by geographic location. This list includes festivals of diverse types, among them regional festivals, commerce festivals, fairs, food festivals, arts festivals, religious festivals, folk festivals, and recurring festivals on holidays.
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