Over the New Mexico State Fair's decades-long history, people have watched baseball games, listened to country and western music stars and even stared at a large pumpkin.

"The state fair is a single event ... when folks — call them city slickers — get to see and even experience a slice of life outside the metro area, and when folks from outside the metro area get to come to 'the big city,'" said Rodger Beimer, retired journalist and unofficial state fair historian.

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