When the Carnival Came to Town, Part 2 (concluded)

“A nickel to play, a nickel to win, you get it in you’re gonna win.”We walked up and down the evolving midway of games of chance, corn dog stands and ticket booths; some of them where set up out of the backs and sides of small trailers, others were quickly being erected in three [...]

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When the Carnival Came to Town, Part 1

This afternoon, while walking through a quiet neighborhood here in Daejeon I could have sworn I smelled cotton candy. Almost immediately I was transported back into time—back to when I was a small boy growing up in Illinois and waiting for the carnival to come to town during the summer.
Although there were some large [...]

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