Nora will use this blog to chronicle her daily adventures at the Indiana State Fair.
Nora Spitznogle, Sarah Davis, Douglas David
This evening was the official 'meet the artists night' for the Farm to Fair show.
It was humbling to hear the memories stirred by the show. I heard several stories of childhoods on the farm and grandmother's journals and other rural tales.
Gwen has fond memories of pulling weeds with her four sisters and growing up on a working farm.
It feels odd to watch friends and family and strangers ready my stories and gratifying to hear that they identified with them. Hearing people laugh while reading the stories is heart-warming.
My part of the Farm to Fair project is to tie Douglas's farm scenes to the fair scenes. Some were straightforward - dairy cow to a milkshake was easy. Flowers to a pork chop was a little more of a stretch...
The sweet smell of summer flowers help balance some of the not-so-sweet smells of farming.
I’m looking at you, piglets! Swine have a distinctive odor and I will forever equate that smell with going to visit uncles and cousins and laughter and sunshine.
Lots of little piggies went to market, and several wound up at the State Fair. Indiana farming families sent eight million pigs to market last year – that is enough to meet the pork needs of every Hoosier, and twenty million more people around the U.S. and the world. The pork market is also the leading consumer of Indiana grain. Show your State pride by eating a pork chop at the Indiana Pork Tent.
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