The blue-grass region of Kentucky : and other Kentucky articles . deserted gates willpass a long, weary, foot-sore line of brown. Nothingin the floral hall now but cots, around which arenurses and weeping women. Lying there, somepoor young fellow, with the death dew on his fore-head, will open his shadowy eyes and remember thisday of the fair, where he walked among the flowersand made love. But it is late in the afternoon, and the people arebeginning to disperse by turnpike and lane to theirhomes in the country, or to hasten back into townfor the festivities of the night; for to-night the spir
The blue-grass region of Kentucky : and other Kentucky articles . deserted gates willpass a long, weary, foot-sore line of brown. Nothingin the floral hall now but cots, around which arenurses and weeping women. Lying there, somepoor young fellow, with the death dew on his fore-head, will open his shadowy eyes and remember thisday of the fair, where he walked among the flowersand made love. But it is late in the afternoon, and the people arebeginning to disperse by turnpike and lane to theirhomes in the country, or to hasten back into townfor the festivities of the night; for to-night the spiritof the fair will be continued in other comedy and tragedy will tread the villageboards ; but hand in hand also they will flaunt theircolors through the streets, and haunt the midnightalleys. In all the year no time like fair-time: partiesat private houses; hops, balls at the hotels. Youshall sip the foam from the very crest of the wave ofrevelry and carousal. Darkness be over it till theeast reddens! Let Bacchus be unconflned! :!^f Tfl. W^Wmm. mk&miu KENTUCKY FAIRS 161 I V The fair languished during the war, but the peo-ple were not slow to revive it upon the return ofpeace. Peace, however, could never bring back thefair of the past: it was gone forever—gone with thestage and phase of the social evolution of which itwas the unique and memorable expression. Forthere was no phase of social evolution in Kentuckybut felt profoundly that era of upheaval, drift, andreadjustment. Start where we will, or end wherewe may, we shall always come sooner or later to thewar as a great rent and chasm, with its hither sideand its farther side and its deep abyss between, downinto which old things were dashed to death, and outof which new things were born into the better life. Therefore, as we study the Kentucky fair of to-day, more than a quarter of a century later, we mustexpect to find it much changed. Withal it hasmany local variations. As it is held here and therei
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