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Press Release 2007 --
CANTERBURY FAIR TRADITION CONTINUES
49th ANNUAL EVENT SET FOR July 28th
Great Food, Shopping,
Live Entertainment,Fun
For Adults and Children All
Day!
CANTERBURY, NH –The 49th
Canterbury Fair will be held Saturday, July 28th from
9am to 4pm rain or shine in the town center. With events
and attractions for the whole family, the fair has been held
on the last Saturday in July every year since 1959. $3.00
parking fee includes a ride to and from the center.
A cannon will announce the start of the fair
with a “loud” boom
at 9AM and two road races, the 5k Woodchuck Classic
and the 2k Chipmunk Scramble, will proceed through Canterbury
Center.
Morris
Dance teams will perform throughout the day accompanied
by “Two
Fiddles”, Dudley and Jacqueline Laufman
beginning at 10:00 am.
“The Muzzeys’ featuring Folk, Country and Gospel
Music will perform from 11 am to 12:00 pm. “The Mink
Hill Band” will then provide live Blue Grass music
from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm.
“The Canterbury Fair is a New Hampshire tradition that
folks mark on their calendar for the last Saturday of every
July” notes Lisa Carlson who has been co-chairing the
fair for fifteen years.
Children will be delighted with old-fashion children’s
games on the green, farm animal display and a Dunkin’ Booth
.
Fairgoers will enjoy traditional favorites like the Chicken
BBQ, bake sale, antique mart, what-not-sale, nearly 50 artists
and juried craftsmen, master furniture makers and working blacksmith;
huge book sale, massage, square dancing performance by the
Concord Coach Squares and canoe polo. The Canterbury
Historical Society will have an open house that day at the
old Elkins Library to show case the recent renovations.
The Canterbury Fair is an outgrowth of church suppers and
sales held by the Ladies Benevolent Society to benefit the
Canterbury United Community Church prior to 1959, and the Ladies
Society ran the Fair until 1965. Since that time, a town-wide
committee has overseen the Fair and proceeds benefit both the
Church and the Canterbury Fun which is a charitable fund that
gives out book awards and scholarships for local student graduates,
supports families at times of crisis and various community
projects.
For more
information contact Lisa
Carlson at 783-0335 or visit: www.CanterburyFair.com.