PEMBERVILLE FREE FAIR
(Admission is Free)

• Open: Open: August 13-16, 2008

• Location: Memorial Park, on the corner of Front and College Streets, Pemberville, Ohio, 43450 (mailing address: PO Box 814, Pemberville, Ohio 43450)

• Phone: 419-287-3832

This 63-year-old event, one of the last free fairs in Ohio, includes two parades and offers the usual mix of animals, flowers, produce, quilts, needlework, bingo, hobbies, and yummy food, along with a horse pull, a kiddie tractor pull, a youth talent show, and a fun run.  The opening Kidde Parade is taken almost as seriously as the Krews of New Orleans take Mardi Gras (minus the naughty young ladies earning bead necklaces and roaming drunks sloshing beer everywhere...) and is well worth watching. Each year, closely-guarded plans for kiddie costumes and floats (which get more and more creative) start far in advance of the parade date and winners not only get a small purse, they get bragging rights until the next year’s parade.

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