Big E Fair Set For Annual September Run

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill

Published August 17, 2014 at 10:18 AM EDT

The state fair season is approaching and details have been announced for the largest fair in the Northeast.

The Big E in West Springfield, Massachusetts will include an exhibit on the 50^th anniversary of the New York World’s Fair. Entertainment headliners include ZZ Top, Darius Rucker and Little Big Town. New fun foods and different concessions will be on the fair grounds. Big E President Gene Cassidy said last year’s record attendance of nearly 1.5 million people made it the fifth largest fair in North America.

"The footprint of the Eastern States, the impact of the Big E is really quite dramatic. I hope it is something people take notice of and appreciate."

The Big E takes place from Sept 12-28

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Paul Tuthill

Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.

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