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A new user-friendly Web site has been launched at Topsfield Fair offering not only exhibitor information and entry forms but just about everything anyone needs to know about the upcoming fair.
The newly designed web site has technology that makes it very user friendly. The site, www.topsfieldfair.org, places emphasis right away on this year’s fair theme, “Go Green With Us!” Its bright green home page even shows a count down to the fair; days, hours and minutes tick away for the 191st fair that opens in Topsfield on Oct. 2.
Visitors to the site can not only find the fair’s Exhibitor’s Handbook information, but information on the various departments, entertainment, the education program, contests and competitions, concessions and advance sale tickets. It includes a daily schedule of events, a map of the grounds and directions to the fair. There is also information on some of this year’s special events such as a butter sculpture and high diving.
General Manager James O’Brien decided to do away with the printed Exhibitor’s Handbook this year to save paper. “Many other fairs, I have found, have done away with a printed handbook and I felt it was one more way for Topsfield to promote our mission to be environmentally sound,” O’Brien said.Anyone wishing to enter into one or more of the fairs competitions this year can simply click onto Exhibitors Handbook on the Web site and all the information will be there.
If anyone does not have access to a computer, they can simply call the fair office at 978-887-5000 to have the information
mailed to them. Entry forms are also available at the Administration Building at the fairgrounds, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.O’Brien plans to publish a small book, after the fair that will list the winners of all categories at this year’s fair. “We have included some of the top winners from the 2008 fair on the web site, such as the giant pumpkin, top flower, poultry, vegetable and baking winners, but it was impossible to list everyone,” He said the fair attracts thousands of entries every year, “We want everyone to know that our competitions are open to everyone, whether they bake a cake, make home made wine or beer, grow flowers and vegetables or show their farm animals, and we will list the winners who are so proud of their ribbons every year.”
