Fair Music Award-Winners Posted

Let's Go to the Fair, by Mark Alan Lovewell, was named the Ag Fair theme song in the fair's first-ever awards for recorded music.

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Ag Fair Auction Goes Live

The Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society’s online auction has an anonymous matching donor.

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Fair Posters, Shirts Made Available

T-shirts and posters for the 2020 Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Fair can be purchased online and picked up at the farmers market or shipped.

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All Virtual Roads Lead to the Fair
Maia Coleman

The Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society will hold its annual August fair virtually this year in an online event the weekend of August 20.

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Ag Fair Plans Virtual Events in August
Will Sennott

The 159th Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society Livestock Show and Fair will be held virtually, on a date to be announced, society leaders announced Monday.

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Was Island Institution: After 84 Year Island Fair to Be Discontinued This Year at Least
Vineyard Gazette

After eighty-four consecutive years of existence the Dukes County Agricultural fair will be discontinued, for this year at least. State premiums have been cut to a minimum, and the receipts normally expected from the gate and other sources of revenue are not expected to be sufficient to cover expenses. Such was the announcement made by George G. Gifford, secretary of the association, yesterday. Charles G. Norton is the president of the association.

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Agricultural Society Cancels the Fair

The 159th Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society Livestock Show and Fair will be canceled this summer, the society announced on its Facebook page.

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Winning Hearts as Well as Ribbons, 158th Agricultural Fair Comes to a Close

Prize-winning vegetables and flower arrangements, the buzz of the chainsaw as woodsmen competed, Best in Show for man’s best friend — notes on the fair from Gazette staff.

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The 158th Agricultural Fair and Livestock Show Is Underway
Caroline Kaplan

Bleats of goats, the creak of oxen carts and a voice over the PA system declared the 158th annual Agricultural Fair officially open at 10 a.m. on Thursday.

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Illumination, Fair, Fireworks: Vineyard Hits High Notes of Summer

With Illumination Night, the Agricultural Fair and Oak Bluffs fireworks all on the docket, this week marks the high point of traditional summer events on Martha’s Vineyard. It all begins at sundown tonight, with the 150th Grand Illumination.

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