It happens every October, the inevitable question. “Are you going to the Sandwich Fair?” I was first asked the question in October of 1985. I had only moved here from New York the month before.…
Among the claims that the State of New Hampshire can confidently make is that of having the first agricultural fair in the nation. That event happened 300 years ago and we can thank the Scotch-Irish…
PHOTO: Picture in the Sandwich Fair Program of “rig” that won a blue ribbon in one of the Fairs. Owned by Ralph Scarborough of Melrose, Mass., a former summer visitor in Sandwich. On the first…