134th annual Deerfield Fair brings back country favorites
KATHLEEN D. BAILEY
Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010
When Sheryl Bolduc’s son was about five, Dwight Damon, a circus ringmaster, pulled him on stage and made him “disappear.” “Dwight told him not to tell the secret — and he never has,” Bolduc said, of her son, now 40. And that sense of magic survives as well, as the 134th annual Deerfield Fair opens today, Sept. 30, at the fairgrounds off Stage Road in Deerfield. Bolduc, now the president of the fair, and her staff have cooked up a mix of new and old favorites so that other families can make their own memories — or recall past good times. The fair is one of New Hampshire’s last fall festivals, with pumpkins, scarecrows and hay bales scattered generously around the grounds. The weather can be
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