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Courtland Pear Fair
Courtland, CA · Food & Drink
- When
- July 25, 2027
- Where
- 180 Primasing Ave · Courtland · CA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
A one-day agricultural fair in the Sacramento River Delta town of Courtland celebrating the local Bartlett pear harvest, with pear competitions, a parade, live music, and a pancake breakfast. Volunteer-run since 1972, it bills itself as the longest continuously running fair of its kind in Northern California.
The history within reach
- Courtland Pear Fairsame spot
A one-day agricultural fair in the Sacramento River Delta town of Courtland celebrating the local Bartlett pear harvest, with pear competitions, a parade, live music, and a pancake breakfast.
After a fire burned the Chinese quarter of Walnut Grove, the residents leased land downriver and built their own town, the only settlement in America built by Chinese for Chinese.
Growers haul thousand-pound pumpkins to Elk Grove Park each October for an official Great Pumpkin Commonwealth weigh-off, followed by a pumpkin regatta where paddlers race hollowed-out giants across the pond.
She was born into an old valley family and spent a career writing about what the place actually was rather than what it advertised, a farm town of levees and heat that had convinced itself it was the frontier.
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Russ Solomon started selling used records from a corner of his father's drugstore under the Tower Theatre marquee, and built a chain of enormous stores that stayed open until midnight and let you browse for hours.