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GiannaLittleChachWild Claw

Rear View and ClownsMummers

Ryley RacerResting Sheperdess

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BE A COLLECTOR

Commemorate your first daredevil midway ride or special fair moment. Choose an image from my limited edition Dutchess County Fair Collection (or ask to see more of my fair photos) and be a Molly Ahearn Collector.

 

DUTCHESS COUNTY
FAIR BOOK

Ahearn’s book, The Dutchess County Fair: Portrait of an American Tradition, features more than 50 of my photographs from the fair as well as an historical account of its 160+ years.

 

Dutchess County Fair

For thirteen summers now, I have walked the pathways at the fair and delighted in many profound and humorous scenes—the serenity of a shepherdess resting with her head on her goat’s belly as she passes the hot hours between competitions; the power of a jet-black, six-horse harness team racing along the track’s white picket fence; the humor of a row of shooters’ derrières as they squirt clowns for prizes; the pit in your stomach that forms when you see the silhouette of The Claw against the summer sky; the pride of a 4-H boy tenderly holding the sheep he spent 8 months raising. These are some of the captured moments in this collection. 

Over 500,000 people attend the Dutchess County Fair every August to experience the 4-H animals, the Midway rides, the entertainment and the food. While the fair is a defining county event, its experience is a national phenomenon. People look forward to  thrilling rides and 4-H shows at state and county fairs across the country. Going to the fair is as American as apple pie, really.


 

  
 
   

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