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Phenomenist brings Danger Magik to State Fair free stage

Master of magic Michael Mezmer has been dazzling audiences across the globe for more than five decades and has made a pit stop on his summer tour at the North Dakota State Fair. For Mezmer, showbiz was a family affair. As a young child his older brother would drag him along to auditions ...

Pie-makers keep tradition going

Dozens of fresh-baked pies have been showing up daily at the North Dakota State Fair since its inception, and this year is no exception. Pies emerge hot from the ovens every morning at First Lutheran Church in Minot, where volunteers don their aprons at 6 a.m. to knead the perfect dough, roll ...

Spinning wool of joy at North Dakota State Fair

The fairy tale “Rumpelstiltskin” is about whether a miller’s daughter can spin straw into gold and riches. For Ossian Kidholm, a wool spinner from Norway who is giving free wool spinning demonstrations and education at the North Dakota State Fair this year, life’s riches come from ...

Seeing the big picture with mural artist at ND State Fair

A picture is worth a thousand words and sometimes those words come from a thousand different people during fair week. Celebrated watercolor painter and mural artist, Nancy Balyeat, is working hard this week on a custom mural for the newly named Roughrider Arena building in the West Park of ...