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"You won't be able to stop turning the pages."--Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host of Public Radio's The Splendid Table State fairs are cornerstones of the American tradition, and few are as beloved as the Minnesota State Fair. Since 1854, Minnesota has reveled in promoting the rich...

Machinery Hill. Edibles on a stick. Livestock competitions. Princess Kay of the Milky Way. The Grandstand. The Midway. It must be State Fair time! A Minnesota institution since 1859, the Great Get-Together draws more than one and a half million people to the annual "Twelve Days of...

". . . An entirely engaging novel with pathos, plot twists, and quirky characters galore. Beautifully written and wickedly funny." --Harley Jane Kozak, Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity-award winning author of A Date You Can't Refuse "Move over Janet Evanovich-mystery fans have a new reason to...

More than 300 black-and-white illustrations vividly portray the fair and its many faces. Historic photographs show long-gone amusements-the wooden Cannon Ball roller coaster, an organ grinder and his monkey, reenactments of famous battles at the Grandstand-as well as early versions of fair scenes...

Little did Linda Christensen know when she walked into a 40-degree, rotating cooler in 1972 that inside that cooler, over the next 50 fairs, she would carve 41,500 pounds of butter into the likenesses of more than 550 young women involved in dairy farming.In that time, traditions developed around...

Teddy Roosevelt's head sculpted from butter. The Liberty Bell replicated in oranges. The Sioux City Corn Palace of 1891 encased with corn, grains, and grasses and stretching for two city blocks--with a trolley line running down its center. Between 1870 and 1930, from county and state fairs...

Greyhound buses and vintage suitcases, whitewashed cottages and wildlife souvenirs, fishing camps and bathing beauties adorn the pages of Minnesota Vacation Days: An Illustrated History. Here the authors of the wildly popular Minnesota Eats Out return to take readers across the state, through the...

A nostalgic look at state fairs from the Civil War through the 1950s explores the individual events that gave the fairs their unique character, from livestock exhibits and carnival rides to freak shows and automobile races.

A dastardly murder and the kidnapping of a prize chicken threaten to ruin Caerphilly's state fair--fortunately, Meg Langslow is on the case ofThe Hen of the Baskervilles The newest mystery in Donna Andrews's gut-bustingly funny, award-winning,New York Times bestselling...

You can get almost anything on a stick at the Minnesota State Fair. This year, murder is added to the list. Despite the thousands of people in close proximity to the crime scene, efforts to find a witness are futile. Family and friends construct radically different portraits of the victim, and the...

Minnesota Book Awards 2022 -- Finalist in Novel & Short Story Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards (NEMBA) 2022 -- Winner in Fiction "Fluid in time and place, Carnival Lights flows between one past and another, offering a heartbreaking...