S.C. Agrifest (Ag Fair) 2009

The Ag Fair opened yesterday for 3 days. It is the biggest in all the islands and people come from St. Thomas, St. John, the British VI, St Lucia, Grenada and others to display their produce, animals, take part in the dancing, and eat, eat, eat. I love it! The clothing, the hair styles, the language, plus all the stuff I just mentioned is lots of fun to see and be some part of.

Quadrille dancing still lives on. Its very much like square dancing and the ladies wear these costumes with headpieces that are starched and look like birds getting ready to fly off their heads. These are checked, but many women at the fair (not just dancers) wear skirts and headpieces made of different madras plaids. The ladies who sell cake and wonderful food are always dressed this way.

Heres a phenomenon we noticed all over the fair. Young girls( best buddies it turns out) dress exactly alike. We saw this all over, but by the time we thought to ask if we could take their picture our battery was out. These young ladies were so cute. They were proud to pose. We saw one duo with white jeans, silver suspenders and silver sequin cowboy hats.

I can't get this to rotate. This display was done by a couple from Grenada. Notice how skinny the pineapples are.

There were so many beautiful peppers, lots of hot ones!

Steel drum bands from many different schools come and compete.

We were not sure why all these children were dressing as clowns but they were having a good time.

Heres what I had for lunch. You pick a main part (like fryed fish, pork, crab&kallaloo, etc.) and then you get 4 sides,( mac n cheese, cole slaw, beans, seafood rice, etc) also you better get some johnny cake which is like a little disc of raised dough that they fry. Its not greasy tho, really yummy!