Although not often or well published, and often overlooked, there are some of our local kids that participate in 4-H and FFA activities. This is their time of the year, their “play-offs” so to speak … the County fairs! 

They work hard, raising fatstock and other animals, dehydrating foods, building bird houses and planters, quilting, and such — doing the kind of things that define the American work-effort and ingenuity.

The program leaders, the parents and grandparents, the aunts and uncles, and so many more work tirelessly supporting their “fair” families and friends.

But this...