Jewells of Thought

My Grandpa Freddy always had our family up to the fair it seems like that first week it was open. It was a family tradition that lasted literally double digit years. Then in a flash we stopped going and it had been several years.

It was a right of passage each year. Our last holiday with our cousins of the summer, before school began. For years we got all the pens and pads of papers galore from the fair. It is the direct opposite nowadays. Hardly any giveaways.

I am not certain when I found the beautiful musical, “The State Fair.” Only that I was glad I did. The music and the time period is spell-binding. I relate to the young daughter in certain ways, more than I ever remember now. Pickles especially come to mind. I don’t think I have watched this in the past two years though, the city man seems very surreal now. The fact that in the show Dana Andrews was the reporter is funny, essentially since I am the journalist in my relationship. Yet the city man and the country girl seems to be a popular American thing.

Dana Andrews is one of my ultimate favorite Classic Movie Stars. He has portrayed many Veterans through his films. Jeane Crain had a lovely voice and her character was the kind of lady I was brought up to be like; the farmer’s daughter.

There is a sense of pride being in a family brought up to believe in God, Family, our Home State and Country Pride.