A Bushel and a PeckMinnesota State Fair

Minnesota State Fair sketch by Chandler O'Leary

Every year that I lived in Minneapolis I told myself I’d do a piece of crop art someday and enter it into the State Fair. Well, I never got around to the real thing, but I did draft an idea in my sketchbook!

It really doesn’t matter, though—I’m just glad I got to spend so much time perusing the ag displays every year. Growing up, I was too much of a city kid to do anything like 4-H, so I guess the fair is my chance to live vicariously through a bunch of farm kids and their charges.

Minnesota State Fair sketch by Chandler O'Leary

Oh, that—and die and go to heaven every time I saw the vintage seed sacks.

Minnesota State Fair sketch by Chandler O'Leary

By the time I’d get to the other end of the ag pavilion, I’d have forgotten all about the rides and cheese curds—I guess I was mesmerized by all those blue ribbons.

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  1. Carrie

    “…living piggie lives
    You can see them out for dinner with their piggie wives
    Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon”

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