The Howard County Fair has something for everyone
The 67th annual Howard County Fair began on Saturday, Aug. 4, at the county fairgrounds in West Friendship, and Patuxent Publishing photographer Brian Krista has been there every day. He’s captured the animals, the people and the competitions held at the fair each year. Check out more of the Howard County Times’ coverage of the fair here.
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- Day 1: A pig known as “Queen Elizabeth” sleeps with her 4-week-old piglets in the critter barn. (Brian Krista/Patuxent Homestead)
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- Day 1: Emily Michalski, 13, of Maplewood Farm in Woodbine gives her sheep a shampoo. (Brian Krista/Patuxent Homestead)
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- Day 1: Jared Thomas, 12, of Woodbine is buried by friends in a play area filled with corn. (Brian Krista/Patuxent Homestead)
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- Day 1: Spectators watch the tractor pull competition on Saturday. (Brian Krista/Patuxent Homestead)
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- Day 2: Victoria James, 8, of Brookeville shows off her attire during Sunday’s 4-H Mini-Fashion Revue. (Brian Krista/Patuxent Homestead)
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- Day 2: Brooke Berlin, 5, of Columbia comes up with apple pie filling on her face during the pie eating contest. (Brian Krista/Patuxent Homestead)
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- Day 2: MacKenzie Ridgely, 16, of Cooksville rides a texas longhorn guided by her uncle Randy Ridgely in the Grand Opening Parade. (Brian Krista/Patuxent Homestead)
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- Day 3: Colby Hough, 10, of Mt. Airy gets ready to show a champion heifer from his family’s Woodcamp Farm.
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- Day 3: A chicken looks out from its cage as people walk through the poultry barn. (Brian Krista/Patuxent Homestead)
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- Day 3: Wyatt Carter, 7, left, and his brother Ed Johnson, 8, both of Mt. Airy trim the coat of a Dorset ram from Maplewood Farm in Woodbine prior to a show. (Brian Krista/Patuxent Homestead)
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- Day 4: Jim Schulze of Woodbine leads his 9-year-old mule “Jenny” over the fence on their way to winning the under 54-inch class of the coon mule jumping competition. (Brian Krista/Patuxent Homestead)
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- Day 4: McKenzie Ridgely, left, and Courtney Moulton, both of Libertytown, compete in a game of cornhole with Chris Moxley, foreground left, and Chris Buckley, both of West Friendship, between animal barns. (Brian Krista/Patuxent Homestead)
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- Day 5: A miniature horse is groomed before competing on Wednesday morning in the Miniature Horse Show. (Jon Sham/Patuxent Homestead)
Patuxent video reporter Jon Sham and photo intern Sarah Hogue also shot video from some of the events, including the pie-eating contest, the cow-milking contest, the miniature horse show and took footage from on some of the rides (below).
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