Big pigs and barn tours
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by Mary Turck, 8/28/08 • The big boar is back, despite a dearth of entries that put this year’s exhibit in doubt until the last minute. On August 14, the St. Paul Pioneer Press headlined “State Fair’s ‘big boar’ contest remains short on sizable swine.” According to the PiPress, the all-time record pig was 1,340-pound Curt in 1994. Last year, Guy Noir said he “was hired by the Minnesota State Fair to provide security for Minnesota’s Largest Pig Ricky, a 1200-pound porker in a pen in the Swine Barn.”
Transportation at the Fair: Tradition & progress
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Some things never change at the Minnesota State Fair. The livestock and horticulture exhibits, the dairy queens sculpted in butter, the Old Mill water ride – all link us to the past and the comforting continuity of life in the Gopher State. But some things do change, sometimes surprisingly, reflecting the latest headlines and foreshadowing the future. For example, in a year of $4 gasoline, the Dodge lot on Cooper St. is touting a 24-miles-per-gallon (highway) minivan instead of the gas-guzzling V8 Hemis of previous years. Continue Reading
