Sandwich Fair Times 2025 FINAL - Flipbook - Page 18
The Sandwich Historical Society
Written by Joan Hardekopf
Located between Otto's train and 5 B's BBQ is the Sandwich
Historical Society's trailer offering commemorative fair items, sun
tea and coffee.
This year's poster is a 11" x 14" fair scene
featuring a ferris wheel, grandstand,
tents, and animals.
This year's toothpick holder is light blue with a
carnival glaze finish imprinted with SANDWICH FAIR
2025. Toothpick holders were first offered by the
group in 1992 and each year since in different colors.
A set of these can be viewed at the Fair Museum.
Memberships to help support the
Stone Mill Museum at 315 E. Railroad
Street in Sandwich are available at
the booth for $15 per person. The
museum is a three-story, four-floor
museum of local and area items.
Also offered is a set of four black & white coasters Hours are 1-4 p.m. most Sundays
featuring the original horticultural building, the main April through September.
gate ticket building, Industrial Hall, and a 1913 photo
of two ladies in a balloon ascension basket. This set would be a PRICES:
nice compliment to last year's set of coasters.
coffee and sun tea................................................................................. $2
toothpick holder ..................................................................................$25
set of 4 coasters ................................................................................. $20
2025 poster ............................................................................................. $5
bag of 10 previous posters .................................................................. $5
DeKalb County history book "Acres of Change" .......................... $10
Sowing 琀栀e Fair’s Future
Junior section entries for arts and crafts were “off the charts”
last year as Director of Exhibitor Buildings Krissy Ross describes them. She says there wasn’t enough room for all of
them. Ross says moving things to the Home Arts Building will
help this year.
is doing outreach at area schools with gardens to get those
numbers up. While visiting when kids are working in the gardens, she promotes the Sandwich Fair.
“It’s nice to show the kids and the families that you don’t
have to be part of a group to do this. Hopefully, just the fact
Ross says there aren’t as many junior horticulture entries as that when they go to school for their regular daily school
there used to be, but the kids are making up for it elsewhere. stuff and they’re helping in the garden, that right there could
“The kids are doing such a great job at taking their own pic- get them an entry in the fair.”
tures, doing drawings, building Legos. They love to work with
the beads, the dots, the list goes on and on and on. But the Keeping kids interested is important to the fair’s future.
Having a good time there now means they’re more likely to
kids were busy last year.”
be involved as adults and support their own kids’ projects.
4H and FFA groups are smaller than in generations past. You Junior entries are for ages eight to 21.
don’t have to be in either to have an entry, but that is where a
good many of the junior horticulture entries come from. Ross
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