County Fair Legacy Project
The legacy portion of this grant will go toward a magician/entertainer who will initially stroll the grounds interacting with fairgoers (mostly youth) demonstrating balloon animals and then having a sit-down magic show twice a day. We will be have fiber weaving/crafting demonstrations throughout the fair week. These demonstrations will be done by 2 people showing from start to finish how fibers (sheep, dog, etc.) are spun into yarns and then woven into other products. We will also be enlisting one of our locals in demonstrating the art of forging.
We will be able to measure some of the attendance for the forging and fiber arts demonstrations, as the demonstrators will be giving out take-home projects. At this time, we are starting with 200 take-home projects. The magician interactions will only be able to be quantified by taking a physical attendance at his shows during the course of the fair - estimating about 120 in attendance. We could count how many balloons he gives out while strolling to see how many people he interacts with. We will have a volunteer go to each of these events and do a count.