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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1981)
reporter's notebook Inhaling the Oregon Country Fair By DONALD COULTER OfttwEmaraM I had never been to the Oregon Country Fair before and I didn't know what to expect "It's like an expanded version of Saturday Market out in the woods," someone told me Just another hippie scene, others said Wrong The best word I can find to describe this fair is BIZARRE Wonderfully bizarre As I walk in the entrance, a marching band in costumes straight out of Alice in Wonderland passes by A small kid with a silver balloon twice his size tugs through the crowd at knee-high level A man on stilts reaches down and tickles the top of my head I turn the corner and come upon a group of musicians who look like they crawled out of a copy of National Geographic One is playing a wooden flute and the others are beating on bongos and congas Dancers in medieval costumes bop to the infectious rhythms The smells are intoxicating — barbecued chicken, corn-on-the-cob. Photo by Erich Boekelhetde curried rice I want a little of everything Ten minutes in this place and I am famished, as if I had been fasting for a week There are exotic foods with names I can’t begin to pronounce I make my decision, giving instructions with my finger as to what I want Extra sauce? Sure, and sprinkle some of that brown stuff on top, please People everywhere are glowing with smiles Everybody is high. Some are on drugs — in the span of a few hundred yards I am offered marijuana cookies by everyone but the Pillsbury Dough Boy — but most people are high on the joy of just being part of this three-ring circus. 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