Pies on the Common Fair 2008
Saturday,
Ocober 18
10 am
- 3 pm • rain
or shine
2008 marks our 18th annual
Pies on the Common Fair. You are invited to attend–and to participate in
presenting the fun!
Our motto:
Pies, pies, pies, and something for everyone
or is it, perhaps, this,
from Jane Austen?
Good apple pies are a considerable part of our
domestic happiness.
...or would we be better
served by Jonathan Swift's deathless aphorism?
Promises and Pie Crusts are Made to be
Broken."
Some might prefer another
truism:
Men may come and men may go...but Pie goes on
forever.
- George Augustus Sala, 1882
Events of the day:
Crafters: to apply
for booth space, complete the registration
form and contact Barbara
Uftring, on the Pies committee.
More pie wisdom:
"But I, when I undress me
Each night, upon my knees
Will ask the Lord to bless me
With apple-pie and cheese." - Eugene Field
New
York Times editorial, 1902 (in response to an Englishman's suggestion
that Americans should reduce their daily pie eating):
“It is utterly insufficient [to eat pie only twice a week], as anyone
who knows the secret of our strength as a nation and the foundation of
our industrial supremacy must admit. Pie is the American synonym of
prosperity, and its varying contents the calendar of the changing
seasons.
Pie is the food of the heroic. No pie-eating
people can ever permanently be vanquished.”
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