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Here’s a memory from Elisabeth Green: “I’m a semi-retired worker with a disability who lives in Boston and I have attended two Common Ground Fairs and numerous educational symposia sponsored by MOFGA. I met the Sheds when we three stayed at Friends Camp in China, ME. They were long-time attendees of the Common Ground Fair

Here’s a memory from Margie Shannon: “I have been interested in flax since I as 8. When I became an adult I grew it, got tools at flea markets and learned all I could about processing flax. Finally, about 5 years ago I was able to grow, ret, break and hetchel it, and then spin

Here’s a memory from Seraphina Erhart: “Chris loved the stilts at the fair, later he went on to do a local circus, riding a unicycle and juggling at MDIHS. Chris would volunteer in the children’s area back then, stilts were his favorite but also hammering nails, etc. As a group in our neighborhood we eventually

Here’s a memory from Melinda Corey: “We knew the fair was magical from the first time we attended, when our now 13-year-old was an infant. It’s now our favorite weekend of the year. Living without these past two years has been rough! We’ve developed a tradition of making a weekend of it with some of

Here’s a memory from Nicolas Lindholm: “I really can’t emphasize enough just how significant the impact of MOFGA has been on my life … That’s as a farmer, a gardener and homesteader, and landowner of both prime farmland, wild blueberry land and forest land, and as an eater and consumer … It’s just been such