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71st ANNUAL GREENE COUNTY YOUTH FAIR - Rural Resplendence in Late July
The great-grandsons of Youth Fair founder Alfred Partridge (left to right) John and Tommy McGuinness, kid around with two other kids. Partridge organized a small Blue Ribbon 4-H Club festival in 1949 at the Sutton Hollow School in the mountaintop town of Ashland, seeing it blossom into a 4-day celebration of agriculture attended by thousands, the last free admission fair in New York.
Peaceful easy feeling for Markus Pecylak of Greenville, daydreaming with his Holstein companion “Star” as the Greene County Youth Fair, held every July, celebrated its 71st summer, last week, at Angelo Canna Park in Cairo.
Pastoral strength and youthful innocence blended in Riley Miliner who came to the Youth Fair with her white-crested duck “Goo Goo.”
Looking every which-way, “it wasn’t us,” claimed Raelyn, Elsie and Clayton (left to right), even while offering no credible other explanation for how poor little Logan got covered in corn.
Hugh Heifer and Peggy (left to right) play hide-and-seek but they aren’t very hard to find for Lieve Story, the latest generation of the well-known Story Farm family out along Route 32 between Catskill and Palenville.
Face-painted “Mirror Reflection Boy,” preserving his secret identity and summoning his inner super powers, prepares to save the day…again.