By Jessica Bauerkemper – Sun Telegraph
SIDNEY – The smell of funnel cakes and the view from the top of the ferris wheel. Nothing is quite like the atmosphere at the county fair.
Sun Valley Rides makes the experience one to remember as they once again prepare to provide fun, family entertainment July 29 through Aug. [...]
By BRENT ENGEL – Hannibal Courier-Post
Bowling Green, MO —They’re called carnies. But in a sense, theirs are the faces that make up a portrait of America. Black, white and brown. Married, divorced and single. Old, middle-aged and young.
The skilled veterans and the inexperienced apprentices. Few other settings offer such a [...]
By KFBB News Team
With the Montana State Fair just a few days away, set up is underway at Expo Park to make sure everything is ready to go on Friday.
Tuesday was the first day of carnival set up at the fairgrounds.
More than 60 workers from Thomas Carnival spent Tuesday afternoon setting up rides that will [...]
By MARC SHAPIRO – Maryland Gazette
Shaw and Sons still a carnival favorite after 64 years
In the 1940s, Leroy Shaw wanted his son to have a good backyard toy he could share with the neighbors.
Armed with the skills of a motorcycle mechanic and sheet metal worker, he built a small train that could hold 24 kids.
More [...]
By JANELLE WALKER For The Courier-News
ST. CHARLES — Jeff Lapin has been in the carnival business for 40 years, and although he’s also had other types of jobs, he is one of those who finds life on the road too alluring to give up.
Lapin, 50, is one of the vendors working with Fantasy Amusement, the [...]
BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER
As a family with young children got their bearings by the fried dough booth, their wide-eyed little girl spun around to take in the colorful, flashing lights and listen to the enticing promises of the game barkers. Jumping up and down, she excitedly announced “I’m gonna get cra-a-azy!”
That mission to have [...]
By Joe Benedict / MVM News Network
DONNELLSON –– Cows, pigs, rabbits and human families will, for the 168th time, make their way to the Lee County Fair this week and weekend.
Touted as the state’s oldest fair, it began in 1841 and has been providing family entertainment every summer since. This year there are plenty of [...]
Source: The Lone Tree Reporter
Vern Tripses of Lone Tree never thought of running away with the carnival as a child – he toured every summer with one owned by parents David and Bonnie Tripses.
The family tradition survives as Vern and wife Veronica continue to tour the state with Next Generations Show, formerly D&B Shows. Going [...]
by Federico Martinez | The Muskegon Chronicle
Her arms were overloaded with an assortment of stuffed toy animals, hats and other trinkets.
A huge grin spread across the face of Sue Morris, as she bounded through Muskegon Summer Celebration’s Midway.
“This is so much fun,” said Morris, a Portage resident who was carrying the carnival bounty for her [...]
