County Fair

I've been thinking about the County Fair recently.

Sure. It's a far way off. Nonetheless, I've been thinking about entering some baked goods. Maybe the ancestral cranberry bread.

Or maybe my homemade applesauce, pie filling or a couple of varieties of pickles.

We'll have to see.

The County Fair has been held on a sixty acre parcel in Sturgeon Bay since 1908. John Miles County Park. Named after Mr. Fair himself.

For a period of time the fair was postponed.

Yep. During WWII there was no County Fair.

Instead - the park hosted a crowd of German POWs housed in three large dormitory buildings near the grandstand. The remaining buildings were used for storing shipbuilding materials for the war effort.

The German POWs worked on local farms.

Today the park hosts all sorts of activities year-round - 4-H. AmVets, Lions Club - you name it. Dirt rack racing at Thunder Hill Raceway too.