County Fair Legacy Project

Project Details by Fiscal Year
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,755
Fund Source
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Recipient
Cottonwood County Fair
Status
Completed
Start Date
April 2024
End Date
June 2025
Counties Affected
Cottonwood
Cottonwood
Project Overview

We are hoping to continue to promote Minnesota art by bringing items back from prior years, but also improve our arts section for our fair. We would like to bring back our Birch Coulee Working Ranch Rodeo that shows our patrons the older styles of a working ranch such as cattle sorting, roping, and doctoring cattle. This also allows local participants to attend and try the different events it offers. Another popular activity we had was bringing a local blacksmith into our fair to show fairgoers the ways they created different tools in our past. We would like to improve our arts section in our fair by upgrading our photography and fine arts displays so our local participants can be proud to show their displays. If there are any funds left, those will be used to bring in a Native American Storyteller and Songwriter.

Legal Citation / Subdivision
Minnesota 2023, Chapter 40, Article 4 Section 2. Subd. 10
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,755
Proposed Measurable Outcome(s)

We are hoping to see 350 people attend the ranch rodeo. We will have a board member take attendance. We are hoping to see 75 people attend our blacksmith demonstration throughout the fair. Our blacksmith will take a count prior to every demonstration.

Recipient Board Members
Mike Hanson - President, Randy Sellner - Vice President, Holly Anderson - Secretary, Kay Gross - Treasurer; Bailey Turner, Jeremie Buhler, Val Graff, Clark Lingbeek, Jerome Robillard, Breanna Wagner, Brent Bramstedt, Cooper Bramstedt
Project Manager
First Name
Holly
Last Name
Anderson
Street Address
PO Box 391
City
Windom
State
MN
Zip Code
56101
Phone
507-822-3767
Email
hollylarson95@hotmail.com
Administered By
Administered by
Location

625 Robert Street North
St. Paul, MN 55155

Phone
651-201-6000
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