Minnesota State Fair

Author : Kathryn Strand Koutsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minnesota State Fair written by Kathryn Strand Koutsky and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enhanced by more than twelve hundred photographs, a history of the Minnesota State Fair includes recipes from 4-H groups, food stands, and blue ribbon-winning contestants.

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Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780873516150
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State Fair written by and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2008 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh, often humorous photographs that will invite smiles, chuckles, and favorite memories of a treasured Minnesota experience--the end of summer celebration of farms, friends, food, and fireworks.

Author : Debra Frasier
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416998179
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fabulous Fair Alphabet written by Debra Frasier and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters of the alphabet in various graphic styles accompany words associated with fairs.

Author : Karal Ann Marling
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 0873512529
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Ribbon written by Karal Ann Marling and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers everything from prize animals to fair architecture to speeches to Pronto Pups.

Author : Darwin Scott Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Minnesota State Agricultural Society from Its Organization in 1854 to the Annual Meeting of 1910 written by Darwin Scott Hall and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Doug Mack
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393247619
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA written by Doug Mack and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “To truly understand the United States, one must understand The Not-Quite States of America.” —Mark Stein, best-selling author of How the States Got Their Shapes Everyone knows that America is 50 states and… some other stuff. The U.S. territories—American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands—and their 4 million people are little known and often forgotten, so Doug Mack set out on a 30,000-mile journey to learn about them. How did they come to be part of the United States? What are they like today? And why aren’t they states? Deeply researched and richly reported, The Not-Quite States of America is an entertaining and unprecedented account of the territories’ crucial yet overlooked place in the American story.

Author : Chris Rasmussen
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609383575
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carnival in the Countryside written by Chris Rasmussen and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a century and a half after its founding, the Iowa State Fair is the state's central institution, event, and symbol. During its annual run each August, the fair attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors who make the pilgrimage to the fairground to see the iconic butter cow, to ride the Old Mill, to walk through the livestock barns, and to people-watch. At the same time that they enjoy fried candy bars and roller coasters, Iowans also compete to raise the best corn and zucchinis, to make the best jams and jellies, to rear the finest sheep and goats, the largest cattle and hogs, and the handsomest horses. This tension between entertainment and agriculture goes back all the way to the fair's founding in the mid-1800s, as historian Chris Rasmussen shows in this thought-provoking history. The fair's founders had lofty aims: they sought to improve agriculture and foster a distinctively democratic American civilization. But from the start these noble intentions jostled up against people's desire to have fun and make money, honestly or otherwise--not least because the fair had to pay for itself. In short, the Iowa State Fair has as much to tell us about human nature and American history as it does about growing corn.

Author : Colleen Josephine Sheehy
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780873515924
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seed Queen written by Colleen Josephine Sheehy and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2007 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first richly illustrated history of crop art and of generations inspired by Lillian Colton and her arresting portraits of celebrities in seeds.

Author : Tony Greiner; Howard Mohr
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 0873517415
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minnesota Book of Days written by Tony Greiner; Howard Mohr and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2009-10-28 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronological compendium of remarkable and curious events in the history of the North Star State

Author : Ben Nesvig
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781508702443
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minnesota State Fair written by Ben Nesvig and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a year, millions of Minnesotans step out of their air conditioned homes to venture into the dusty outdoor furnace that is late August to congregate at the Minnesota State Fair. Driven by the promise of a deep fried oasis, carnival rides, and people watching, the Minnesota State Fair is a tradition for many Minnesotans, including Ben Nesvig. In Minnesota State Fair: Deep Fried Thoughts on Cheese Curds, Carnies, and the Human Condition, Ben Nesvig shares his stream of consciousness journey at the Minnesota State Fair with readers as he explores everything from deep fried cookie dough, the thrill of a giant yellow slide, and ultimately, what prompts Minnesotans to make the greasy pilgrimage. From the introduction: Like a moth to a flame and a Minnesotan to hot dish, I feel pulled here by something primal, something so innate it eludes conscious definition. Yes, I want cheese curds. Yes, I want a strawberry milkshake. Yes, I want to eat so much my belt files for unemployment and my pants become tights. I enjoy these indulgences, but I also enjoy spending an air conditioned evening at home with a ham sandwich and a good book. Why do I come to the State Fair every year without fail? Have I been enslaved by Lady Cheese Curd's greasy golden seduction? While I get a thrill out of the food, I'd just be as comfortable eating a shameful amount of fried delicacies at a Chinese buffet without an audience of a hundred thousand strangers watching me wipe butter off my face. What exactly has led me to the State Fair over two dozen times since my birth? The unanswered question of why bothers me, like the last remaining ounce of a milkshake that refuses to be slurped into the straw. I need resolve.