The Oregon Country Fair is often billed as the epitome of hippie culture. The festival in Veneta, outside Eugene, is a confluence of s values, a place where old hippies mingle with children who grew up eating honey sandwiches on wheat bread and going to school with their clothes smelling of patchouli. At least, that's what it is for me. The Oregon Country Fair has shaped my worldview perhaps more than anything else—for better and worse.
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A few weeks ago, I spent a week working at the Oregon Country Fair. The fair still holds some of the Prankster vibe of its founding; it has roots in a Eugene school fundraiser by Ken Kesey and friends. The first is the day fair, for the paying public, running through the day until the last public guests are swept out in the early evening. Then the second fair starts for the staff, vendors, and entertainers. The day fair is a great, sprawling affair, crowds of families from across Oregon and the Northwest, faces painted and fairy wings resplendent, dashing off to the next musical performance or dawdling in front of a pottery booth.
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If you travel during this time of year you have to go do this! It was so much fun and so weird and I've been twice. Most recently, the 50th Anniversary Fair in