2012 Fair Manager's Update A.B. (Sonny) Hankins

2012 - 62nd Fair


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The schedule of events and attractions for the 62nd Annual Baldwin County Fair begins with a parade in downtown Robertsdale on Saturday, September 21, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. The South Alabama Antique Tractor and Engine Club organizes this event, parading restored farm tractors to the delight of the owners and their audiences as well. The Tractor club will have live exhibits including a blacksmith, corn shelling, slab cutter saw, cane syrup press if sugar cane is available and grinding old fashioned cornmeal –they will be exhibiting under the arena. Come see the Titan, a kerosine engine tractor that weighs 10 tons, and stands 12 and half feet tall and 30 feet long. The Myers International Midway will offer “PAY ONE PRICE” specials on Tuesday and Wednesday of Fair Week. Everyone will pay $10.00 at the gate to receive an armband for unlimited rides. The Sweet Potato Cook-Off, Senior Citizens Kazoo Band, Southern Legends Band, and Tim Brown Entertainment are the special entertainment “in the house” on Thursday, Students and Seniors Citizens Day. A new event this year will be the Emerald Coast Electric Train exhibit in the coliseum. And who isn’t fascinated by miniature electric trains? The rodeo is a longstanding event on Friday and Saturday nights. That’s when “the cowboys come to town” and we all dress in western attire. It’s so much fun to see the arena filled with children of all ages running in the “calf scramble”. Fairground entertainment will be the Star Family Circus and Thrill Show featuring a giant “space wheel of destiny”, and motorcycle daredevils in the “globe of death”. Just wait until you see the surprise ending! What would any fair be without the Creative Arts Competition exhibits? Baldwin County has a good reputation statewide in the Alabama Association of Fairs for many outstanding displays in this division. I encourage all of you to enter your canning, baking, sewing, quilting, crafts, scrapbooks, art, and photography. You might be placed in the winner’s circle and get a rosette ribbon! So, that’s a tour of the scheduled events for the 2012 Fair. Each year my mother-in-law says, “That’s the best fair ever; nothing can top that one!” Hope she says the same thing this year! See you at the Fair! Sincerely, A.B. "Sonny" Hankins
Sonny Hankins