THE WATERFORD WORLD’S FAIR in the early 20th century, when it still operated as a street fair in North Waterford. Tickets were sold on the street to passing motorists, and tents arranged on the village green.
THE WATERFORD WORLD’S FAIR in the early 20th century, when it still operated as a street fair in North Waterford. Tickets were sold on the street to passing motorists, and tents arranged on the village green.
Howdy neighbor! This 250th Year of American Independence, another venerable local institution celebrates an important milestone. Over in Waterford from July 17-19, a humble institution turns 175 years old, and readers I do hope you’ll be there to see it. I refer, of course, to everybody’s favorite local international affair, the Waterford World’s Fair: founded way back in the early 1850s, and unarguably the world’s smallest world’s fair.
Don’t let the small-town setting fool you, it truly is a cosmopolitan affair, for to this little Oxford-county fairground delegations from such esteemed, far-famed, and farther-distant locales as Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Paris annually come in droves, and it is fully expected that others will come out to visit from Poland, Mexico, Naples, and maybe — if we’re really lucky — even down from Peru and China. They will all be travelling literally dozens of miles from these towns to attend, even as will all the other folks from their surroundings, less-worldly towns here in Oxford and northern Cumberland counties. You know, I think it’d be a fun play on James Chute’s beloved World Traveler Signpost one year, for the Waterford World’s Fair to actually feature exhibition booths from all these towns, in the manner of the real world’s fairs which host national delegations.
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