This chocolate cake is part of the York Fair mural on the side of York's East Market Street Parking garage.

Even when the York Fair is closed, a wide Mural of York reminds the public of this York County rite of late summer.

But the condition of the mural also sends off other reminders - suggestions about the state of York County agriculture.

Read more at York Town Square blog post: This York Fair mural is fading from sight.

 

 

Junior curator Alyssa Zevallos, 17, of Hanover makes cotton candy during the unveiling of a York Fair history exhibit at the York County Heritage Trust.

The York Fair is over, but it lives on in an exhibit at the York County Heritage Trust.

Read more at York Town Square blog post: Young curators product York Fair exhibit: 'A Fair of Our Own'.

 

 

 

Check out a video of the concert here.

Alt-rockers Seether and Breaking Benjamin took over the York Fair Grandstand Wednesday night. It was the first time at this year's fair that I saw a huge line at the gates prior to a concert. Fans had been hanging out for hours just waiting to stake out a spot right next to the stage.

 

Last York Fair, I experienced my first Bury's Famous Hamburger.

This year, I gobbled my second and third.

But despite my best efforts, I could not get those at either fair stand serving the burgers to reveal the secret of that red sauce.

Not that I don't have it from another source.

Read more at York Town Square blog post: Bury's Burgers secret sauce: 'You won't get that recipe' .

I know, I know. All I talk about is food. What can I say?
 I thought I ate a lot last year, but BigJoe on the YDR Exchange outdid me by a few meals. I'm envious.
He said:
"I ate:
A Porky's pulled pork sanwhich
A chop steak from the YCFD stand
A cinnamon bun
Onion rings
An italian sausage with onion and peppers
A chicken leg from Sensenig's
A Lola's waffle with ice cream
and Stoltzfus' chicken pot pie to go which I ate this morning for breakfast."

To read more click here. 

If you want to read about my weak showing, click here.
  
I am going back tomorrow and I am going to try harder than a baked potato and a milk shake. Check back to see how I do.

These pre-World  War II York Fair days were chockfull of patriotism. But not all was well at the fair.

 

The previous All's Fair post, York Fair important to black community's past, tells how this annual rite of September was a meaningful and memorable event for York's black community.

But not all parts of the York Fair spoke well of the views of fair organizers or those in power about the black community, as related by the York Town Square blog post: Good old days were at least old.

 

 

 

 

 Texas rockers ZZ Top hit the York Fair Grandstand Tuesday night. No warm-up act necessary. They played their hits including "Cheap Sunglasses," "Legs," "Sharp Dressed Man" and "Gimme All Your Lovin'."

Billy Gibbons and bassist Dusty Hill sported black, sparkly ensembles and played white guitars. One of my favorite parts of the show was when Gibbons swapped out for a gold guitar and then one that was white and furry.

 

York County Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donley shares these "fair memories":

 I grew up in Allentown and went to the Allentown Fair for the first twenty years of my life and over the past twenty years as a Yorker I have attended the York Fair.  Following are some memories over 40 years of "the Fair:"

 As a kid loving the late summer sun-baked spending of family time on food, music, rides, farm animals, games .

People watching ... seeing and being seen ... and lots of laughing.

Sheep, cows, pigs, chickens, pumpkins, pies, cakes and the amazing people who raise them, grow them and make them.

One of my first jobs, working the Orange Julius stand and realizing that making money could be fun.

Brooks & Dunn canceled their Thursday night York Fair performance because one of them is ill, according to Gene Schenck, vice president of the fair.

The duo also canceled their next two shows in Pittsburgh and Chicago. Check www.ydr.inyork.com for more details.