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Every
September,
the Charles County Fair Board puts on an old-fashioned
county fair with farm animals,
displays of all kinds, demonstrations,
and food of various
kinds.
Our county fair celebrates Charles County's
350 year long agricultural heritage and history. |
The Charles County
Fair
is located on over 30
acres south of La Plata. Exhibits as varied as
livestock, field corn, arts and crafts, quilts and flowers are
shown in our Greens area.
Over 790 exhibitors entered over 6,000 exhibits in 2009.
Entertainment, special events, and activities for all ages
as well as
four stages filled with
games, shows,
music, a baby show, pig races,
and performers of all sorts
add up to fun for the whole family.
Lawnmower
racing is one of several new events for 2009. Our carnival midway is
full of rides and contests for all ages.
We even have a "kiddie" midway for those young ones among
us. If you get hungry, there are plenty of choices from
traditional county fair food to more healthy alternatives,
even crab cakes!
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Your continuing support allows us to upgrade the fair each
year and to pay for our annual 4th of July fireworks.
We also host
many affairs and events during the year such as tool shows,
hunting expos, lobster
feasts,
dog shows, tractor pulls, and family reunions.
We would like to thank everyone
who helped make
this year a great success.
Hope to see you next year at the
87th Charles County Fair.
September 16- 19, 2010
Wednesday the 15th - a preview
night for the midway
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Dear Fair Goers,
As
President of this year’s Charles County Fair, I would like to extend
a sincere Thank You to all who participated, helped or visited us
this year.
I
would like to take this opportunity to thank our Board of Directors
and all those associated with our board. To all of our
Superintendents and their helpers, thank you for your hours of hard
work and dedication that you all put into making this year’s Fair
the success that it was.
For
all of our volunteers; without your time and the work that you do,
we would not be able to pull it all together.
And
finally to all the hundreds of thousands of wonderful visitors who
attended our Fair, you are the reason why we do this, and I thank
you for coming to the Fair and hope that you had as much fun as I
did.
I
hope to see or hear from you during the upcoming year as we start to
make plans for 2010. If you have any suggestions to help make our
Fair better or if you would like to volunteer and get involved,
please let us know.
I wish you all a safe and wonderful year.
Sincerely,
Charlie G. Gardiner Sr.
President
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The Maryland Freemasons provided a FREE Child
Identification Program at the Charles County Fair on
Friday, Sept. 18th from 10:00 am - 6:00pm and on
Saturday, Sept. 19th from 10:00 am - 6:00pm.
MdCHIP
is a comprehensive child
identification program designed to give families a
measure of protection against the ever-increasing
problem of missing and abducted children.
The package includes:
• Digital Photographs •
Digital Video Interview • Digital Fingerprints • Child
Information and Emergency contacts • Cheek Swab for DNA • Two
(2) ID cards for laminating
A CD formatted to be
recognized by the Amber Alert Systems.
Click here for more info!
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“Green” is More
than a Color at the 86th Annual County Fair
Recycling Partnership Focuses on Promoting Education and Awareness
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The 2009
Charles County Fair's
unofficial theme this year is “Reduce…Reuse…Recycle!”
Thanks to a cooperative effort by the Charles County
Government, Charles County Fair Board, Charles County
Public Schools, and Coca-Cola Enterprises, the Fair kicked off a large-scale, recycling and environmental
education program targeted at school-aged children. We
thank everyone who came the fair for recycling their waste in the many
provided containers around the fairgrounds.
Learn more about this
program by clicking here! |
Special Appearance by Civil
War Author John H. Frye
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John H. Frye, the
author of historical fiction praised as "one of the most
original Civil War novels on the shelf" hosted two
book-signing sessions at the Charles County Fair on
Saturday, September 19th.
John H. Frye of
Frederick, Maryland and Reedville, Virginia, obtained
his law degree from Vanderbilt University School of
Law. After eight years in private practice, he joined
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and was appointed a
judge in 1981. In 1992, he joined the judges at the
Occupational Safety & Health Commission. Frye's interest
in writing dates back to his high school days in
Tennessee. After he retired as a judge, Frye's
continuing passion to write resulted in his first novel,
The Seventh Trumpet, published in 2001 and
his second, The Scoundrel and the Spy,
published in March 2008. Frye's third novel,
Underwood, now in progress, is set along the
Ohio River in what is now West Virginia, and concerns a
young man's struggles to find himself during the turmoil
leading up to the Civil War.
Frye's works are
Civil War historical fiction, that is, his characters
are his own but the storylines are set in authentic
Civil War venues and the action and intrigue surrounding
the time and venue are woven into the prose. The
Seventh Trumpet earned five stars on Amazon, and
readers included it on a list of great Southern
literature. One reader commented: "Fast moving...
and.. conveyed a real sense of what life must have been
like in the South. Another reader said "Frye's writing
is crisp but descriptive and moving," and yet another
simply said "Very moving." Frye's passion for his
subject, combined with his thorough and critical
research, has produced sensitive and compelling reads. |
 
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74th Queen Nicotina Crowned
On the first night of the fair, Miss Katie
Campbell was crowned the 2009 Fair Queen, Queen Nicotina. Miss
Campbell was sponsored The Science National Honor Society. Miss Haley
Spalding (Zonta Club of Charles County) was the first runner-up. The second
runner-up was Miss Ebony Sherrill (T.I.A.R.A Organization).
Please send all inquiries
about fair entries to
entry@charlescountyfair.com.
Click
here for a
printable entry form to bring or mail. All
exhibitors wishing to enter their exhibits online should click the button
below.
Online entries will be accepted until
Sunday, September 13th at 11:59 pm.
Note: We are no longer accepting online livestock entries!
Congratulations!
Our 2009 fair catalog cover winner is
Kavon M. Pearson from Westlake High School
We
appreciate the assistance and
volunteer efforts of the many organizations
and hundreds of individuals
whose help is critical to the success of our fair.
Your entries and participation in the
fair makes our event special.
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