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| "Gone to the Fair" - Creations by Melinda |
And then I found another a few feet away. Jamie just had to pose in the photo with it.
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| "Barrettville" -Art by Kat |
And then Jamie told me there were 60 concrete cows scattered all over the fairgrounds this year in honor of the butter cow's 100th birthday or anniversary or whatever you'd like to call this centennial celebration of sculpted bovine butter. And then the challenge was on: Find all 60 concrete cows in the 11 days of the ISF. I wondered if I should pace myself and set a daily number to find so I wouldn't finish too quickly and spoil the fun. I needn't have worried. Between trying to find these buggers amongst the crowds and then trying to remember which ones I had already found and which were new, this was waaaaaaayyyyyy more challenging than I'd expected. When the second weekend crept up and I still had 20+ cows to find, I started to get nervous.
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| "Butter Up!" - Palmer Farms |
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| "Bedwell Gardens" - Bedwell Gardens |
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| "Faces of Hope" - Optimae Life Services |
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| "Moo-saic" - Grinnell High School Art Club |
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| "100 Cows of Butter on the Wall" - Iowa Craft Beer Tent |
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| "Salute to the ISF Fire Dept. and Hall of Flame" - B.J Ho man |
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| "M.A.K.-Magnicent Art Keeps Us Coming to the Fair" - Peggy Kaldenber-Shaer |
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| "Udder-ly Amazing Times at the Iowa State Fair" - Nora Kinsey |
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| "Represent Iowa" - Tony Kukla |
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| "Keep on the 'Sunny' Side of Life" - Angie Wittmer |
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| "Pirates of the Cowibbean" - Nobbies Party Store |
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| "Marine Pride or Moorine Pride" - Mary Crouse |
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| Touchstone Energy Cooperatives - "Corn Belt Power" |
For someone who's been to several Iowa State Fairs in a row, this challenge created an exciting way to explore and see all of the fair and grounds in a whole new way.
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| "Luther College Sesquicentennial Cow" - Luther College |
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| "Organized Doodles" - Brandon Kintzer |
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| "Fair’s the Word" - Lynn Grove Hustlers 4-H Club |
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| "Starry Eyed" - Emily Alexander |
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| "Coral Reef Beef" - Natalie Cooley |
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| "Pioneer Hi-Bred" - Pioneer Hi-Bred |
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| "Dairy Potter" - Kylie Peterson |
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| "Udder-ly Cool" - Pleasantville Preschool/Missy Card’s Class |
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| "Flutter Cow" - Angela Vandell |
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| "Mercy Children’s Center on the Mooove" - Mercy Hospital |
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| "Rivalry" (Cyclone side) - Iowa State Fair Paint Shop |
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| "Rivalry" (Hawkeye side) - Iowa State Fair Paint Shop |
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| "Reduce, Renew, Reuse-Houle" - Eldon C. Stutsman, Inc. |
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| "Providing Cow-Pital to Rural America" - Agri-Access |
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| "Make Love, Not Hamburger" - Tracia Owens Art |
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| "Cow Chip" - Renae Scott |
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| "Iowa Caucuses" - The Des Moines Register |
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| "Greetings from Bovine Vista" - Buena Vista University |
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| "Where’s the Beef in the Beatitudes" - Lutheran Church of Hope |
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| "Meals from the Heartland" - Meals from the Heartland |
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| "Purple is the New Green" - Greenstar Recycling |
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| "The Blue Between" - Children and Family Urban Ministries |
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| "350 Cow" - Ellen Johnsen |
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| "Hagie Culture Cow" - Hagie Manufacturing Company |
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| "Iowa Angus Herd" - Messy Missy’s Studio |
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| "Cow Divided" (Cyclone side) - Lindsey Wanderscheid |
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| "Cow Divided" (Hawkeye side) - Lindsey Wanderscheid |
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| "Hereford/Baldy" - Lane Ritcher |
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| "Hereford/Baldy" (other side) - Lane Ritcher |
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| "Flat Duffy" - ISU Extension |
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| "Addie The Iowa 4-H Adventure Cow" - ISU 4-H Interns & Sandy Cannon Spilker |
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| "Moo-will of the Heartland" - Goodwill of the Heartland |
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| "Moo Tat Toos goes to the Iowa State Fair" - Kathy Hoch |
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| "Miss Buttermilk Pancake" - Centerville High School Students |
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| "The Quilted Cow" - Jenna Smith |
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| "Pearls Along the Mississippi" - Cyndy Simmons |
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| "Kaleidoscope Cow" - Marne Steinke |
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| "Jazzy Cow" - Allison Waterman |
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| "Glimpse of A Grand Ol’ Fair" - Pamela Kline |
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| "Cow le Flower-In the Discovery Garden" - Polk Co. Master Gardeners |
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| "Andersonium: Greek Goddess of Dairy" - Anderson Erickson Dairy |
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| "Kids Cancer Squad Quilted Cow" - Janie Ostrem |
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| "100 Years and Cownting" - Trilix |
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| "Holy Cow! Harry Carey" - Agri Power FFA |
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| "Clearfield Lions Shuttle Cow" - Clearfield Lions Club |
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| "KIX 101.1 Cow; Making Mem-'Moo'-ries" - Hallie Krouse |
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| "Moo-will of the Heartland" - Goodwill of the Heartland |
Thanks to a hint from a friend and Jamie's keen eye, these last two were found the last weekend of the fair - just in the nick of time!
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| "Goofy Skates to the Fair" - Iowa Events Center |
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| "Crimson-The Spice Lady" - Mary A. Walter |
To whomever planned and organized this project - my hat's off to you! Great idea! And done so well too! Thanks too, to all the artists who spiffed up their concrete cows in such varied finery.
And in parting, here are two bonus concrete cows NOT included or noted on the map I discovered at this year's Iowa State Fair:
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| Special Christmas Cow in the Ag Hall from Quilted Garden Nursery |
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| Larry & Barry - the artists who created the "Christmas Cow" from Quilted Garden Nursery |
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| Spotted Inside the Dairy Barn |
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