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You know I'm talking about the 172nd Annual Fryeburg Fair.

The Fryeburg Fair was started actually in March of 1851 when a few local farmers and merchants got together and decided to show off their harvest, produce, cattle and wares to the community. It's grown just a tiny bit. The Fryeburg Fair is Maine's largest agriculture fair and the second biggest in New England only to the Big E (Eastern States in Massachusetts).

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Today the Fryeburg Fair sits on 185 acres and has over 100 buildings. The eight-day fair hosts over 3,000 animals including prize-winning draft horses, ponies, racing horses, oxen, dairy & beef cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, poultry, rabbits, and much more. Maine's Blue Ribbon Classic is always during the first week in October. Fryeburg Fair has just a bit more happening since back in 1851 when William Walker of Lovell won $3 for the best acre of corn and William Spring of Brownfield earned $1 for the best seed wheat.

They didn't even mention the food! You can get pretty anything you want; most of it will be on a stick or deep fried! Or the size worthy of a blue ribbon.

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Fryeburg Fair/Facebook
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Love 'em or hate 'em, they've got those walkable turkey legs! The food that comes with the stick on the inside!

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This is an agricultural fair and animals are a huge part of it. If you are an animal lover, it's hard not to fall in love over and over and over. The fair seems at times like a reminder of how life used to be. Where animals fed you and helped you farm your land. There is such respect for the sweet animals.

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And of course the rides and Medway. The rides are now all set up and ready to go. Here's the Ferris wheel before it was completed.

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Nearly 300,000 people come to the Fryeburg Fair every year. Be prepared to hit traffic and walk a bit from your parking spot. But you'll forget all about the hassle as soon as you walk through the gate.

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