Get yourself to the Geauga County Home & Garden & Farm & Whatever Exposition next year. You missed it this time; and what an exposition it was!
The place, up on Nauvoo Road, was two buildings…maybe three…maybe four…it was hard to tell, full of all kinds of things, particularly for the Amish community but welcoming to anyone else who came to peruse the commercial offerings of a whole bunch of vendors. There was lots o’ stuff.
You could get your buggy essentials, archery supplies, Byler’s Seed & Hardware offerings and suggestions, poly wagons, Tupperware and CutCo (standard at all of these kinds of things) , woodcraft-related items–stuff that had been made, stuff to make stuff with–cookbooks, vacuum cleaners, sewing machines, massagers. There was something called an ice cream canteen to keep your afternoon treats at a picnic. Plenty of health-related items were available, leaning heavily toward the natural and organic types–pick up a jar of 7-Day Liver Cleanse or Pro Lean Greens, for example. UH Geauga Medical was doing free health screening, cardio, blood pressure cholesterol, etc. (I passed). You got your usual baked goods–the fry pies were sold out–your hot dogs, cheeseburgers, french fries, pies. You could watch an incubator with peeps just pecking their way out of shells, drying out and looking around for somebody to charm, before they started laying…or turning up as dinner.. My favorite was the mini doughnut concession turning out the little treats floating in hot oil like an assembly line, with toppings from cinnamon sugar to powdered sugar to squirts of raspberry, black raspberry, Bavarian cream or chocolate. I was forced to buy some just so I could watch the process; they tasted good too.
Took to noticing different styles of facial fashions among the Amish and the Yanks.
Watch for it again next year. Bet there will be something new and different as well as “the same old thing”. Interesting, in any case.
