Blue Hill - It's an end of summer tradition that dates back to 1900.

Joy Hollowell spent the day in Blue Hill for the final day of the Blue Hill Fair.
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"We've been coming here since 1954," says Dan Morrison. "My father used to bring us down, all of the kids. We'd all climb in the back of the pump truck and come here and stay all day long."

Stories like this are pretty common at the Blue Hill Fair. Every Labor Day weekend, for the past 112 years, visitors have enjoyed what organizers call a down to earth country fair.

Many like the up close and personal visits with livestock. Cody and Silas are Brown Swiss oxen. This is their fifth year on display at the fair. Their owner, Theresa Cunningham of Valley Brook Farms in Carmel says folks love to pet the 2,000 plus pound animals.

"Oh yeah, the animals are the biggest attraction here." says Cunningham. "That's what most people come for."

17-year old Siovhan Dhority won Best Of Show for a charcoal drawing of her great aunt. The Franklin teenager and her family saw the ribbon when they came to the fair on Monday. Dhority says she started drawing when she was 11 years old.

"And Dad, bought me, or mom, bought me a drawing program and we all started it as sort of a curriculum. And then everybody else kind of quit, and I just kept doing it."

Hot dog pig racing, oxen scooting, sheep dog trials, ladies skillet toss, a no bake cookie contest and musical acts at the Midway are just some of the things that make the Blue Hill Fair an unofficial end of summer tradition that shows no signs of slowing down.
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