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PHOTOS: 2024 Illinois State Fair Butter Cow unveiled
This is the 103rd butter cow at the state fair, and the eighth consecutive butter cow designed and sculpted by Sarah Pratt.
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Illinois State Fair kicks off as officials unveil 2024 butter cow
Miss Illinois County Fair Natalie Evans and others to unveil the 2024 Illinois State Fair Butter Cow on Wednesday, kicking off the 11-day fair. The theme of this year’s fair is “It’s ...
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The Iowa State Fair butter cow will be sculpted in the Smithsonian next year
The butter cow at the Iowa State Fair ... Pratt herself sculpts butter in both Kansas and Illinois as well as the Iowa State Fair. Butter carving and molding has deep roots in history that ...
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Iowa’s butter cow goes to Washington. Why the State Fair icon is off to the Smithsonian.
After decades on display at the Iowa State Fair, a butter cow crafted by Cumming ... In 1957, Earl Frank Dutt of Illinois took over the sculpting duties. Norma “Duffy” Lyon of Toledo, Iowa ...
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You butter believe it: Iowa State Fair to be featured in the Smithsonian Museum
When representatives from the Smithsonian of American Art visited the Iowa State Fair butter cow artist Sarah Pratt, she was overjoyed to just show them a few of her sculpting tools. When she realized ...