This is on the front page of the Metro section today, along with two big color photos above the fold:
SALEM — The Oregon State Fair’s fresh air activities draw daring crowds: a spin on several whirl-and-hurl rides, muddy moguls crisscrossed by mountain bikers, sobering rounds on a mechanical bull.
But if you prefer spending your sugar high in more quiet comfort, wrap a fist around a paper cone of spun sugar and duck into the Americraft Center for another sort of travel, the back-in-time kind, to a moment when neat hand stitches and specimen carrots have always garnered blue ribbons and nods of approval.
For visiting members of the literati, there are walls of poetry, some penned by Oregon’s own Steven Robert Heine: “The K.G.B./is after me./ They want me for my brain.”
For the green of thumb, there are envious rows of pastel-colored roses and dahlias.
