Learn About The 'Old' Berlin Fair At Special Tuesday Event

BERLIN, CT — The Berlin Fair in its current form has been hosted by the Berlin Lions Club each autumn since 1948.

But the tradition of an agricultural celebration in Berlin goes further back than the post-World War II era ... way back.

On Tuesday, Jan. 7, the Berlin Senior Center is hosting a local historical who will discuss the prior incarnation of the Berlin Fair at a special program at 1 p.m.

Cathy Nelson, a retired Berlin-Peck Memorial Library librarian, and a local historian, will present and discuss the Berlin Fair as it was from its inception in 1882 to its closure in 1919.

The Berlin Senior Center is located at 33 Colonial Drive, Berlin.

Essentially, the Berlin Fair was born in the 1880s as a local harvest festival and, by the turn of the next century, it became a statewide celebration called the "State Agricultural Fair," according to the Berlin Lions Club's fair webpage.

Thompson is expected to discuss shat the fair was like during its first run in Berlin, years prior to its 1948 resurrection by the Berlin Lions Club.

For more information on the Berlin Fair, click on this link.