County Fair Legacy Project

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,680
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Dakota County Fair
Status
In Progress
Start Date
April 2023
End Date
June 2024
Counties Affected
Dakota
Dakota
Project Overview

We would like to have our local blacksmith's guild members give demonstrations throughout the week of our fair in the blacksmith shop located in our Heritage Village on the fairgrounds. We could get many demonstrators to demonstrate the equipment that we have in our heritage village buildings such as spinning, weaving, quilting, and cooking. We also may have an opportunity to have a threshing demonstration by the local machinery men that meet here in Dakota County. We hope to contract a chainsaw artist and/or the Paul Bunyan Live show to have here the week of the fair. The chainsaw artist would be able to give many demonstrations throughout the week of the fair. We will contract the Lumberjack show for all seven days of the fair as well. The Paul Bunyan Live show would be here one day - possibly kids day.

2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,680
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

Measured by a volunteer that attends the shows and can give us an estimated number of attendees.

Recipient Board Members
Pete Storlie, Neil Deplazes, Ashlyn Otto, John Hubener, Ed Barrett, Sarah Dingels, Mark Langer, Marge Snyder, Ariana Sorem, Melanie Storlie, Jeff Wright, Chris Worsham
Project Manager
First Name
Kristine
Last Name
Smith
Organization Name
Dakota County Fair
Street Address
4008 220TH ST W
City
Farmington
State
MN
Phone
651-463-8818
Administered By
Administered by
Location

625 Robert Street North
St. Paul, MN 55155

Phone
651-201-6000
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