NEWS

Fair Season

Autumn temperatures and harvest activities also mean that regional fairs are on the calendar. At NHF, the archivists are busy with digitizing the news footage from several collections, supported by grant funds from NEH, that remember the fairs of 50 years ago. Here are some of the reports at the Bangor State Fair, beginning with construction of the fair,

https://collection.oldfilm.org/Detail/occurrences/11636

https://collection.oldfilm.org/Detail/occurrences/18313

the arrival of beauty queens,

https://collection.oldfilm.org/Detail/occurrences/23724

and then on to a craft fair in Orono,

https://collection.oldfilm.org/Detail/occurrences/26999

and a best of Italy import fair,

https://collection.oldfilm.org/Detail/occurrences/8927