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To contact the author to participate in the oral history project or for copies of the Bloomsburg Fair annual reports: Susan R. Dauria, CEH, Department of Anthropology, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA 17815.
Rick Creasy: You know, the food is reasonably priced because the Fair doesn’t overcharge the concessionaires. It’s the only fair you can go to and buy a two dollar and fifty cent hot sausage. You go to any other fair its six, seven dollars. If you’ve been around, you know what it costs. And we’re very cheap at our Fair. And that’s because of the Fair-directors. They’ve kept the price down. That’s what’s made the Fair successful.
Mr. Dick Bowman: Well, we’re not running the circuit of fairs, so our grandkids aren’t helping out like our kids did. But, the grandchildren do help. And of course we couldn’t do it without the family. It is all about family!
Mrs. Debra Heckel-Baigis: Every day is a different story. People just love to tell you their life stories, and how they love gardening and about coming here when they were kids. You know people just love the Fair.
Mr. Fred Trump: It is a spirit that you inherit and you either love it or you hate it. There are a lot of people who are born in the west end of Bloomsburg, and this fair is a very important part of their lives. But the community spirit can engulf more than just Railroad Street and West Bloomsburg. I think it embodies the whole of Columbia and Montour Counties. I think it is that spirit that brings people back again, and again, and again. I think that is why it is growing.
Woody Heaps: I remember, we started out in a Pole-Tent, which my dad picked up in New York. We rented it and put it up. This type of tent has two big poles that go up the middle, like a circus tent. It is a real big tent with poles in the middle. My dad used to have to get all his buddies just to get the tent up. And they’d put that tent up, and go down and pound in all the stakes, then afterward they would come down and pick the tent up every year at the end of the Fair. That was back when it was tough. Everything was just heavy. Now we’ve got a tent company that comes in and puts it up. We’ve long done away with the pole tent.
Mr. Dick Bowman: Well, we’re not running the circuit of fairs, so our grandkids aren’t helping out like our kids did. But, the grandchildren do help. And of course we couldn’t do it without the family. It is all about family!
Mrs. Debra Heckel-Baigis: Every day is a different story. People just love to tell you their life stories, and how they love gardening and about coming here when they were kids. You know people just love the Fair.
Mr. Fred Trump: It is a spirit that you inherit and you either love it or you hate it. There are a lot of people who are born in the west end of Bloomsburg, and this fair is a very important part of their lives. But the community spirit can engulf more than just Railroad Street and West Bloomsburg. I think it embodies the whole of Columbia and Montour Counties. I think it is that spirit that brings people back again, and again, and again. I think that is why it is growing.
Woody Heaps: I remember, we started out in a Pole-Tent, which my dad picked up in New York. We rented it and put it up. This type of tent has two big poles that go up the middle, like a circus tent. It is a real big tent with poles in the middle. My dad used to have to get all his buddies just to get the tent up. And they’d put that tent up, and go down and pound in all the stakes, then afterward they would come down and pick the tent up every year at the end of the Fair. That was back when it was tough. Everything was just heavy. Now we’ve got a tent company that comes in and puts it up. We’ve long done away with the pole tent.