August 15, 2016: Boldly going where 1 million people go a year.
I’m as crushed as Kyle Munson is about this revelation about the Iowa State Fair, which starts today:
[A] recent Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows that 40 percent of Iowans haven’t even bothered to attend the fair in the last decade.
The Register’s other columnist, Dan Finney, is on the record as a huge fair hater. But to find out, when once-a-decade visitors are added, that more than half the state balks at one of the “1000 places to see before you die”… call me odd, because I can’t even. (We already knew you were odd. —Ed.)
I’m one of the 7 percent that’s earned a ribbon at the fair, too, all but two of them 4H-related. I thought I had a shot this year, but laid a goose egg on photography entries. (0-for-4! Super bummed!)