Over at the Deep Fried @ the NC State Fair blog (we Southerners sure know how to name our blogs), it was announced yesterday that the 2009 NC State Fair theme will be "A Whole Lotta Happy". Take a read at the following statement from the Fair Crew and then watch the steel drum scored and lofi home video (which looks to have been done on a Flip video camera, if this is so, props indeed on saving the production cash). I'm still not sure what to think after watching it a few times, but I'm mostly thinking Deep Fried Cheese. The fair will take place at the State Fairgrounds this year from October 15-25. For more, read the blog or check out the fair's website.
I’m not exactly sure how this one came up in our brainstorming session, but it has brought smiles to our faces for the last four months and we are happy to announce it. We think it encapsulates the Fair. There’s always “A Whole Lotta Happy” on the fairgrounds during the Fair…from kids grinning ear-to-ear over a stuffed animal that they won, parents laughing on a mini roller coaster with their kids or a youth grinning over winning a blue ribbon in a livestock competition. Not to mention the happiness that comes over a grown-man’s face when he walks up to order an onion blossom or sausage dog. Or a kid’s grin eating a sticky, but sweet, candy apple. Yes, we see “a whole lotta happy” each and every day at the Fair. And yes, we already know the alternatives some pundits may throw out there. But that’s not gonna wipe the smiles from our faces whenever we think of the theme and the happiness that the Fair brings to so many people.
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