This is Eric Mortensen's blog. He works @ Blip and lives in Brooklyn.
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I went to my first Big Fresno Fair this year. I’d been to fairs before, but this one was a bit larger than I’d anticipated. A county fair, what could be that hard to imagine, right? I’d been to the Medina County Fair, Summit County Fair & Even the Ohio State Fair in my time growing up. This fair just barely eclipsed the state fair of Ohio. There were more rides that arrived on the back of a tractor-trailer than I’d ever seen or even knew existed. I didn’t even know you could include so many stages at a county fair, let alone have exhibits of fresh produce fill an entire building. I always thought it was a silly name for a fair, but I guess there’s really no way around it: it’s the BIG Fresno Fair.