Agricultural Fair

November 5, 1858

Agricultural Fair and Cattle Show

Vineyard Gazette
Wednesday of last week was a great day for the Vineyard.
Agricultural Fair
West Tisbury History
June 28, 2021

Agricultural Fair Poster Honors Memory of Emma Hall

Maia Coleman
The Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society has unveiled the winning poster for the fair this summer honoring Emma Hall, a longtime fair volunteer who died this winter in a motor vehicle accident.
Agricultural Fair

1992

August 21, 1992

Fair Issues a Historic Poster

Rachel Orr
Agricultural Fair
Thomas Hart Benton
Twenty-five years ago, artist Thomas Hart Benton put on paper the spirit of the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society Livestock Show and Fair.
 
Now the spirit of the fair as depicted by Mr. Benton is available on cotton as well.
 
The Benton egg tempera from 1967, entitled The Fair, is the design on this year’s fair T-shirts and posters. The T-shirts finally became available yesterday.
 

1971

August 17, 1971

Mince Pie, Cucumbers and Squash, the Way It Used to Be at the Fair

Joseph Chase Allen
Agricultural Fair
The day was hot, and horsedrawn rigs stood lined against the cedar bars, and over all there hung the smell of peanuts, soda and cigars, except down where the cattle stood, hot, thirsty, in the blazing sun and Old Man Andrews rigged his stand, the targets, and oiled up each gun. He couldn’t shoot while cattle stood so night the butts of turf and wood.
 

1966

August 19, 1966

Touch of Youth is Seen at 105th Fair

Joseph Chase Allen
Agricultural Fair
The 105th annual fair and cattle show of Dukes County opened in West Tisbury yesterday morning, and the following impressions were gained at 10 o’clock in the forenoon:
 

1942

July 10, 1942

Was Island Institution: After 84 Year Island Fair to Be Discontinued This Year at Least

Vineyard Gazette
Agricultural Fair
Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society
World War Two

After eighty-four consecutive years of existence the Dukes County Agricultural fair will be discontinued, for this year at least. State premiums have been cut to a minimum, and the receipts normally expected from the gate and other sources of revenue are not expected to be sufficient to cover expenses. Such was the announcement made by George G. Gifford, secretary of the association, yesterday. Charles G. Norton is the president of the association.

1858

November 5, 1858

Agricultural Fair and Cattle Show

Vineyard Gazette
Agricultural Fair
West Tisbury History
Wednesday of last week was a great day for the Vineyard. At that time, the first agricultural gathering and display ever attempted on the Island, was successfully held at the Dukes County Academy, in West Tisbury. The exhibition greatly surpassed the warmest hopes of its friends. There was a grand display of the cattle, fruit, vegetables, flowers, pictures, and fancy articles.

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