Agriculture Reference
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In a cardboard box
tucked under my right arm, a pair of Black Silkie bantams were
about to make their county fair debut. It was my first fair, as well. After being instructed
in how to fill out the forms and hang the cage tags, plus the care and feeding respons-
ibilities of the exhibitors, I was ready to show my birds. Those little black chicks I had
nurtured from infancy strutted and crowed for the whole county to see. I was genuinely
proud of them; they were bright eyed and seemed happy.
The night before I had washed them in natural dish detergent and gently blow-dried
them on towels while we listened to the back porch bluegrass show on NPR. The no-
tion that a few years ago my New York City design school friends and I were skip-
ping through galleries in Chelsea and eating overpriced French toast at the Empire Diner
