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A Touch of Country: The Fall Fair

Posted on October 10, 2012

Every year the Stissing Mountain High School chapter of the Future Farmers of America runs an ag fair.  I’ve filmed different parts of it before, but this year I’ve pretty much stuck to the tractor pulls and the barn where kids show cows.  

Related stories are at a previous Fall Festival Fair coverage and a tour of the ruins of the original Dutch Schultz moonshine operation.

4 thoughts on “A Touch of Country: The Fall Fair”

  1. Jess says:
    May 3, 2016 at 11:33 pm

    Love what you’re doing! It is fun to show people from all over our little town. I definitely miss the Ag Fairs and working with the cows when I was younger 🙂

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    1. stan says:
      May 4, 2016 at 4:47 am

      Thanks, Jess! I hope you continue to visit our town through the website. And I think it shows that the kids still like working with cows….

      Reply
  2. betty says:
    May 11, 2014 at 2:07 pm

    When I was a little girl, I had a uncle who live in pines plains.I loved going to visit him, seeing the videos I am going to go back

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  3. Rosey says:
    October 10, 2012 at 9:34 pm

    What a pleasure.

    I am mesmerized by the kids with the calves – their ease as well as the calves’ – but the tractor pull really got my attention this year. I regret not seeing my neighbors Kyle and Samantha drive!

    Thanks so much Stan!

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WHY THIS WEBSITE

I came to Pine Plains by choice, not by chance of birth.

But the small-town rural community I chose is changing. The farmers have, for the most part, sold to people from the city and fields are becoming lawns.

And, like the land, people, too, are becoming subdivided as difference breeds distance rather than discourse.

I have been making these videos to preserve and reconstitute what I can of a changing way of life and to share it with the community.

On a more personal level, I am making this website as a way of holding on to the reasons why I came here.

Stan Hirson

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