The New York State Fair folks moved the sand sculpture back to the Center of Progress for 2019 after a year at the Exposition Center. It looked good back in the center of its old home. Get the monkeys, my dear wife Karen urged. Walking the aisles, I noticed the sculpture had different themes on…

Having lived in New York State all but six years of my life, I had memories of many but not all of the cars in the New York State Police exhibit. Not that purple one, wise guys. I told my dear wife Karen that during a certain era, the color pattern of the cars brought…

The big sound came from the guy in the center of the knot of fair-goers on the midway. The man in the one-man band really did know how to rock out. Bandaloni is his name, and he can really play guitar, drums and everything he carries on that rig of his. His singing voice made…

The new layouts the New York State Fair folks come up with every year do make the walking navigation easier. No worries. We managed to find Pizza Villa in its new spot. Not pizza. Stretch fried dough at its best. We were impressed that the stand owners used the term exactly as they do in…

The goat building draws in my dear wife Karen and I every year. How can we not adore these animals once described as confused dogs by my friend and former fair rep Fred Pierce? Don’t worry. The predicament above was solved when the goat owner stood the little guy up on hind legs so his…

One of the first sights that greet you when you enter the New York State Fair’s Gate 10 and wander down the path is the Exposition Center. In its second year, it sits at the end of the Midway full of glass on its most impressive side and begging for folks to come in and…

Yes, we did go to the New York State Fair this year. (I’m way behind because of all those Texas photographs and nuggets of family adventure I was determined to share first.) Anyway. When my dear wife Karen drove down Long Branch road planning to park in the usual temporary Centro lot to take the…