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• Storm Survivors: Rebuilding the Albemarle County Fair
Plagued by heat, storms, and– most-recently– a season-quashing unavailability of land, the Albemarle County...
0 commentsVirginia in general this summer– and the Albemarle County Fair over the years have been notorious for devastating thunderstorms. This was no exception on August 28, when a massive storm rocked...
0 commentsQuestion: How do you predict when it will rain in August?
Answer: What date is the Albemarle County Fair?
Even in a drought year, there's an amazing consistency to the county fair's ability to...
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Since the days of Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," frog-jumping contests have been a time-honored part of county fairs.
But they hold no honor for Daily Progress...