Danbury Fair
danbury fair also known great danbury state fair yearly exhibition danbury connecticut begun agricultural fair regular schedule hat manufacturer rundle white helped form danbury farmer manufacturer society closing fair open ten day every october fair took acre km² rundle white hoped would danbury pleasure park admission cent adult cent child fair offered everything tobacco pear homebrewed wine hat boot saddle carriage wagon churn stove people employed fair race track built fairground midget car stock car race replaced earlier harness race fair multivaried attraction included new england village dutch village lumberjack competition ox draw sheep shearing contest music dancing puppet show animal petting zoo ride game display farm machinery food livestock exhibit judging fair owner john leahy died organization fell disarray escalating value land led assessment high estate tax compelled organization sell meanwhile due prime location outside entity increasingly expressed interest purchasing land amount offered buy regularly increased last day fair october estimated people attended year ride attraction holding auctioned danbury fair mall built fairground wilmorite corporation photo fair original sign used found mall food court fair featured large fiberglass sculpture character uncle sam paul bunyan many purchased fair closed continue exist notably jack gillette purchased hundred object put display magic forest amusement park lake george new york photo uncle sam magic forest lake george new york sculpture uncle sam foot tall claimed tallest uncle sam world uncle sam statue returned home danbury located danbury railway museum sculpture paul bunyan manufactured international fiberglass massproduced identical sculpture sell store tire muffler shop thus sculpture generally referred muffler men danbury fair paul bunyan eventually painted like hippy moved max yasgurs farm bethel new york home annual woodstock reunion since returned danbury httpswwwdanburyctgovunclesamdedication article history fair danbury public school