RANDOLPH COUNTY, Indiana — When over 650 kids descended on the local 4-H fair this summer to show livestock and exhibit projects, the grounds looked a little grander than in years past.

Children wearing cowboy boots and oversized belt buckles led heifers and steers around a shiny, new show area. Families scooched past neighbors, friends and cows to find accessible, air-conditioned bathrooms.

Teens dished out nachos and sugary elephant ears to hungry fairgoers in a brand-new kitchen, even as the 65-year-old milkshake machine still rumbled against a far wall.

Residents of this county on Indiana’s eastern border have been showing swine, sheep and cattle on this site since the 1950s. But the fairgrounds had wilted under the weight of so many feet — and hooves. Now, it has a new life, thanks

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