By Lindsey Rowland
lrowland@wbcowqel.com
Every year members of local garden clubs decide on an appropriate theme for the Crawford County Fair Flower Show.
This year marks the 100th birthday of the Lincoln Highway, and so, naturally, the show took on a theme that traced the history of the famous road through the years. Different categories were dubbed with themes such as gas stations, church steeples, postcards from the road, and inns. Each had a design guideline that fell in line with the theme and often included other elements such as breakfast trays and other added decorations.
All of this was judged alongside the annual groups of individual flowers and plants that had their own sections of the show that dealt more the horticulture than with design.
Dianna Zaebst, who is a member of the Earth, Wind, and Flowers local garden club, believes that the flower show offers a lot for fair goers.
“It just brings a lot of interest to the fair,” Zaebst said. “We have many people come in here. It brings beauty, it brings fragrance, it brings just something different from any other place on the fairgrounds.”
Zaebst says, “the show offers a lot of color and an aroma that you don’t get anywhere else at the fair.”
The flower show will be on display for all to enjoy for the rest of the week.
See more photos from the 2013 Crawford County Fair on our photos page.