That’s right y’all, this is small town life at its finest!
Like any other small town, Farmington has a revenue-boosting, visitor-drawing weekend of fun. In other towns, it might be a watermelon festival or a apple harvest. In this small town, it’s Country Days.
Up go fair booths and sidewalk sales and carnival rides, and the streets become blocked off to vehicle traffic. The smells of dirt and sweat and funnel cake and hot dogs fill the air, and town comes to life for one weekend.
Activities begin in earnest tomorrow, with rides opening at 5 pm, a dance party starting at 6, and the annual moonlight bike ride starting at 10:30.
On Saturday, highlights include a one-mile fun run at 7 am, a 5 mile run at 7:30, the opening of the arts & crafts fair at 9, and the parade at 10. THE big event of Country Days 2009 will be the Aaron Tippin concert at 8:30 pm in Long Park.
Activities continue through mid-day Sunday. I’m considering wandering the events with my camera to see if I can get some fun small town moments, though I may escape the crowds and head into the woods for a weekend of hiking instead.
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Ha! Avoiding town altogether sounds good to me! Of course, we may have to break down and go to the park for the free Tippin concert…one never knows.
For years after we moved out of Farmington, we still made it back every year for Country Days. At first, as an excuse to visit Emali, and then out of habit for years after. Having a toddler makes a weekend trip far less practical, plus I’m going out of town this weekend for training in Chicago… I really hope that we can resume the Country Days Farmington Visit tradition in the next year or two, because I tend to get sad every first weekend in June since I’ve stopped going, knowing I’m missing it.