The 99th Annual Big E
The Big E, a yearly tradition, has once again come and gone for the 99th time.
The greatest time of the year has come and gone! The Big-E is new England’s greatest fair which is also known as the Eastern states Exposition. Next year makes the 100th anniversary! This fair isn’t only great because there’s many shops which people like but there’s many rides and games, animals to look at, concerts, parades ,pig races, state buildings to go in, and many wonderful varieties of food to try! There’s deep fried mainly everything, you name it! Deep friend Oreos, fried kook-aid, jelly beans and even butter and etc. Great baked potatoes, corn dogs, pulled pork, beans, BBQ dinners and sausages.
Emily Leblanc from the class of 2017, said the Maine baked potatoes are her favorite even though there’s usually long lines for it. Also, It’s worth the wait and they literally put anything on top that you want that’s located in the Maine state building. There’s also Mexican, Greek, Latin, and Chinese food stands. There is a really good donut place called donut family and it’s a stand that has different coffees and mini donuts which is my favorite that I get every year! For dessert, there’s soft serve ice cream, candy apples, fried dough, and so much more!
The Big-E began September 18th and ended on October 4th of 2015 in west Springfield.
Elephant rides have been going on for many many years at the big-E now. But they’ve been getting treated poorly.There was three incidents with the elephant while taking rides with kids in the past. It’s very dangerous because the elephant is getting forced to do rides. There’s other animal rides too, but the elephant one is worse. Many people have been arguing about it over the Internet debating if they should take it out of the fair or not.
There are many shows and concerts that play at the xfinity center. There are many performers people enjoy to watch. Many country singers also perform like Brett Eldridge did on September 25th at 7:30pm for free. And there’s also always a circus at a certain time and date every year which shows pretty cool things that are different.
Until next year, Big E
