41.   Like their white counterparts, these photographers, occasionally women, traveled, set up studios, advertised and won medals at state fairs.

42.   Meryl throws down her hoe and hops into the pickup for a four-day fling while her husband and kids are nursing the heifer at the state fair.

43.   Now, when they appear at state fairs and regional lottery promotions, the Lotto girls are mobbed.

44.   One cannot underestimate the importance of food in a state fair.

45.   On the surface, state fairs have shed their rustic ways.

46.   Others swear they have spotted Elvis Presley alive and well and selling corn dogs at state fairs.

47.   Richard and the kids are soon off to the Illinois state fair, and right after that fate sends in a white-maned dreamboat.

48.   Publicity helped the contest make the big time and move up to Dallas for the state fair.

49.   Recruiters staffed booths at both state fairs and sent brochures to schools.

50.   Set him down in the middle of Iran and he is as exuberant as a boy at a state fair.