A Taste for Competition
“It was uncharted territory — happening on back-to-back nights,” says Jennifer Currie of Clyde, who earned the rare honor of winning not one…
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A Thousand Paths to Mountain Music
Carol Rifkin is an expert on mountain music from many angles. She sings and plays it, she writes about it, and she’s the host…
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Fair Bets
You can always nosh on a corndog at the Mountain State Fair, or tear into a Renaissance Faire-worthy Henry the VIII turkey leg, or…
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Slow Ride, Hard Work
Compared to the sky-scraping Zoogvogel (a 90-foot-tall swing tower) and the 360-degree Moon Rocket rollercoaster, the slow and steady chairlift aka Sky Ride —…
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View to a Thrill
Deep-fried Kool-Aid (how do they do that, anyway?) isn’t for everyone. But if you can’t find something to enjoy at the Mountain State Fair,…
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Heavy-Metal Music
From dog-agility contests to Motocross, from gospel jubilees to tensely competitive bake-offs requiring the use of local blueberries, the NC Mountain State Fair has…
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