Planning on heading out to the Huntsville Fall Fair on Sept. 19, 20 and 21st? Of course you are. Fireworks, agricultural displays, music and all kinds of good things to eat await you, as evidenced in the very bottom and very top pics showing last year’s midway.
But take a glance at the pic to the immediate left, showing Huntsville’s Fall Fair in 1914.
What a difference 94 years makes. And while the garb of fairgoers and the entertainment has changed a bit, we’ll always have our poultry exhibits.
Inset below is a picture of Nellie Darling (nee Tutt) feeding her turkeys circa. 1900 in front of parent-in-law James and Hannah (nee Dixon) Darling’s homestead in 1869.
Below that, a Cochin White sits in beribboned glory as spectators give him the once-over. All we can say is, nice birds baby.