Danbury Fair

The fair offered everything from tobacco, pears, and home-brewed wines to hats, boots, saddles, carriages, wagons, churns, and stoves.

During the 1950s through 1970s, the fair's multiple attractions included New England Village, Dutch Village, lumberjack competitions, oxen draws, sheep shearing contests, music and dancing, puppet shows, animal petting zoos, rides and games, displays of farm machinery, and food and livestock exhibits and judging.

The fair featured large fiberglass sculptures of characters such as Uncle Sam and Paul Bunyan.

Notably, Jack Gillette purchased hundreds of objects to put on display at the Magic Forest amusement park in Lake George, New York.

The Danbury Fair Paul Bunyan was eventually painted like a "hippy" and moved to Max Yasgur's Farm in Bethel, New York (home of annual Woodstock reunions).