Travelogue: on expedition @ the Oregon Country Fair
If you're traveling… in the north country fair
Where the winds hit heavy… on the borderline
Remember me… to one who lives there
For she was once… a true love of mine
Where the winds hit heavy… on the borderline
Remember me… to one who lives there
For she was once… a true love of mine
- from “Girl from the
North Country ” by Bob Dylan
The “Oregon Hippie Scene” is alive and well in Veneta ,
Oregon Eugene Pacific
Northwest for the Oregon Country Fair. The OCF has been a psychedelic, vaudevillian
timebomb that has exploded in day-glow brilliance in the very heart of the Willamette
valley, for the last 44 years.
The Oregon Country Fair is held in a 280 acre wooded fairy glen,
along a meandering black, muddy river known as the Long Tom. Nestled within the
woods and meadows are miles of winding footpaths with over 700 artisan and food
booths and 18 different performance stages. Lurking in the wooded shadows, one
will find a wild assortment of magicians, jugglers, gypsy fortune tellers, fauns,
satyrs and wood nymphs.
Like Prometheus, our field operative, Jack Heart …went on
assignment into the “belly of the beast” to steal the magic fire that is the
OCF, and bring it back to the delight and wonder of all the intrepid readers of
this blog. What follows is a picto-travelogue of this amazing festival.
the main stage
toward the main stage
"video" game at the fair
toward the community village
in between performances at the main stage
along the path
Here are some bonus pictures, not of Jack Heart's camera...
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