Did you think Fairs were cancelled last year for the first time? Polio, a disease similar to COVID, affected fairs too over 50 years ago. Jerry Apps, lifelong writer of American agriculture, lived through both COVID & Polio. He is currently working on a book of the history of fairs and the release date has been delayed due to the pandemic. However, Apps says, "It allows me to write how for the first time - and polio was another time when some of the fairs were cancelled, but for many years everyone looked forward to attending their county fair and all of a sudden it was no more, it was gone."

Did you think Fairs were cancelled last year for the first time? Polio, a disease similar to COVID, affected fairs too over 50 years ago. Jerry Apps, lifelong writer of American agriculture, lived through both COVID &amp; Polio. He is currently working on a book of the history of fairs and the release date has been delayed due to the pandemic. However, Apps says, "It allows me to write how for the first time - and polio was another time when some of the fairs were cancelled, but for many years everyone looked forward to attending their county fair and all of a sudden it was no more, it was gone."

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