The county fair is not just carnival rides and funnel cakes. A traditional fair showcases the pride, creativity and industry of country life. While you can watch the Pig Race around the Red Barn, you can also wander through the Flower Show, the Art ExhibThe county fair is not just carnival rides and funnel cakes. A traditional fair showcases the pride, creativity and industry of country life. While you can watch the Pig Race around the Red Barn, you can also wander through the Flower Show, the Art Exhibit, and a working tractor engine display. The Beauty Pageant, where the 2005 Queen of the Fair was crowned, was a very popular event as the ladies were very cute. Southern country life of sprawling farms and families is slowly disappearing as land is parceled into subdivisions and kids move to larger towns. So the traditional fair represents a conflicted duality. The whirling lights and dizzying motion of pleasure-inducing machines illuminate the anachronism of rural independence.