Fun at the Fair

Reader Contribution by Claire E.
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Waves of rain billowed over my parents, me, and the other Fairgoers as we waited for the shuttle. Umbrellas bobbed through the parking lot; the rain pattered on the thin layer of water that had already collected on the ground.

It was the second day of the 2013 Mother Earth News Fair in Seven Springs, Pennsylvania, and despite the fact that I suspected we’d need an ark to get back to our campsite, I was excited for what I might learn today because of what I’d learned yesterday. It doesn’t matter how much you know already, there is always something to learn at the Mother Earth News Fair.

I’d discovered this one day previously, on the first day of the Fair. Marveling at the number of people in attendance, my parents and I had wandered between vendors’ tents. I’d learned the difference between a yurt and a dome house, and found two new varieties of garlic and an interesting chicken coop plan. But if the vendors were informative, they were nothing to the organized classes.

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