If you can count on anything during the Labor Day weekend, it’s the Sheboygan County Fair. Pausing only in 2020 for COVID during the recent era, the event returns to the fairgrounds in Plymouth today for its 172nd year and runs through Labor Day on Monday.
Dependable as it is, some things have changed in what’s commonly considered an “old tradition”. When it opened in 1851 the fair consisted of agricultural displays near the corner of Adams and Michigan Streets in Sheboygan Falls, and after wandering a few years found a permanent home in Plymouth.
Some things have changed with the times, with horse races replaced by stock cars; WHBL won’t be repeating its live 1937 broadcast of the “German Beer Garden of the Air” from the fair grounds, and the 1899 basic admission price of 25 cents has grown to $10 a day for adults. But you’ll still find musical entertainment, 4-H and youth exhibits, you can probably find a prize-winning pie, and you’ll most definitely find food on a stick…maybe in more than one location…at the Sheboygan County Fair today through Monday.
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