Sunday, September 12, 2004
Hemmingsen: The 2004 State Fair
From KELO Television (SD)
I never quite grasped the logic of moving the South Dakota State Fair to a Labor Day start rather than a Labor Day finish, but maybe it's working...or at least helping. Iwent to Huron for a day at the fair earlier this week.
But my stomach, and some have said I have a golden gut for a news story, tells me we've turned a corner. It started rumbling at the Pork Producers' stand in the food court. For the first time in memory, the Pork Producers ran out of pork loin sandwiches and had to sheepishly cringe, point us to the Beef booth and close the window. This was before the eight o'clock Charley Pride concert, so they must have had a lot more customers than they expected, a good thing for the fair.
As for Charley Pride, I'm not a fan of the country genre, but he puts on a good, crowd-interactive show encouraging people to stand in front of the stage where he shakes hands as he sings, the country version of a mosh pit. I'm glad they didn't try passing me around.
But Charley Pride, who has been famous since the early 1970's, wouldn't have had to worry about that. He left 'em wanting more, not less.
Read the article
KELO
I never quite grasped the logic of moving the South Dakota State Fair to a Labor Day start rather than a Labor Day finish, but maybe it's working...or at least helping. Iwent to Huron for a day at the fair earlier this week.
But my stomach, and some have said I have a golden gut for a news story, tells me we've turned a corner. It started rumbling at the Pork Producers' stand in the food court. For the first time in memory, the Pork Producers ran out of pork loin sandwiches and had to sheepishly cringe, point us to the Beef booth and close the window. This was before the eight o'clock Charley Pride concert, so they must have had a lot more customers than they expected, a good thing for the fair.
As for Charley Pride, I'm not a fan of the country genre, but he puts on a good, crowd-interactive show encouraging people to stand in front of the stage where he shakes hands as he sings, the country version of a mosh pit. I'm glad they didn't try passing me around.
But Charley Pride, who has been famous since the early 1970's, wouldn't have had to worry about that. He left 'em wanting more, not less.
Read the article
KELO
# posted by Dave Sichak @ 1:18 AM 
