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Title: The blue-grass region of Kentucky : and other Kentucky articles
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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s containing often a pairof lovers who do not keep their secret discreetly;family carriages with children made conspicuouslytidy and mothers aglow with the recent labors of thekitchen: comfortable evidences of which are thehuge baskets or hampers that are piled up in frontor strapped on behind. Nay, sometimes may beseen whole wagon-loads of provisions moving slowlyin, guarded by portly negresses, whose eyes shinelike black diamonds through the setting of theirwhite-dusted eyelashes. Within the grounds, how rapidly the crowd swellsand surges hither and thither, tasting the pleasuresof the place before going to the amphitheatre : to thestalls, to the booths, to the swings, to the cottage, tothe floral hall, to the living curiosities, to the swinishpundits, who have learned their lessons in numbersand cards. Is not that the same pig that was shownat Bartholomews four centuries ago ? Mixed inwith the Kentuckians are people of a different buildand complexion. For Kentucky now is one of the
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THE MODERN TOURNEY. KENTUCKY FAIRS 153 oreat summering: States for the extreme Southern-ers, who come up with their families to its watering-places. Others who are scattered over the North re-turn in the autumn by way of Kentucky, remainingtill the fair and the fall of the first frost. Nay, isnot the State the place for the reunion of familiesthat have Southern members ? Back to the oldhome from the rice and sugar and cotton plantationsof the swamps and the bayous come young Ken-tucky wives with Southern husbands, young Ken-tucky husbands with Southern wives. All these areat the fair — the Lexington fair. Here, too, arestrangers from wellnigh every Northern State. And,I beg you, do not overlook the negroes—a solidacre of them. They play unconsciously a great partin the essential history of this scene and festival.Briskly grooming the stock in the stalls; strollingaround with carriage whips in their hands; runningon distant errands; showering a tumult of blowsupon the newly-arrived

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