09/03/2026
Westchester has a country fair that's 102 years old, and it exists because a guy named Chester Hyatt wouldn't stop bragging about his potatoes.
Hyatt was a member of the Yorktown Grange, a farmers group whose members kept arguing over who grew the best vegetables. In 1924 he said fine, let's settle this in public. The first Yorktown Grange Fair ran that October, and they've been judging vegetables, flowers, needlework, baking, photography, livestock and poultry ever since.
The first hour of every day is a quiet hour with no loud noises, so people with special needs can enjoy the fair too. The whole thing is run by volunteers, and the money goes to local charities and service groups.
The 102nd fair runs September 11, 12 and 13 at 99 Moseman Road in Yorktown Heights. $15 gets your whole car in. This year's theme is Goats, Games and Good Times — a name that could describe basically any Westchester weekend.
The fair's history was written up by Eileen and Jim Seaboldt on the Grange's own site, and that's where most of this came from.
What's the one thing you have to eat at a fair or it doesn't count?
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