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What I Learned from
Working the California Fairs?
The wonderful diversity of Life and people.
Mimi Lozano
The opportunity of working the Fairs in California introduced me to California geographically and culturally. The lives of the people, who participated in some aspect of the Fair, were as varied as life itself. I stepped into and projected what their home lives might be and what it would be like for them in the future.
The farm boys who
were competing with their pig or calf took extra care to keep their
animals, clean, exercised, well-feed, calm and rested. Many
of the young men would sleep in the pen with them. I
used to enjoy visiting the pavilion were the animals were kept.
One time I was visiting when the pigs were being moved from one
pen to another. I got caught in the pathways
between the pens and found myself walking next to a huge pig.
His back was higher than my waist. The pig
had strong prickly hair, which stood straight-up and rubbed against my
legs. I was surely surprised and didn’t know if I
was in danger or not. The boys were amused as I reacted to the
nearness of the pig. Finally two of the boys
maneuvered me out of the pens.
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