The Lycoming County Fair is returning.

We hope everyone enjoyed our guide to the Lycoming County Fair and other nearby fairs in Wednesday’s edition. Even more so, we hope everyone takes an opportunity to visit the county fair.

For generations, the fair has been an annual display of our communities’ values — hard work, craftsmanship, an appreciation for what our region’s farms and farmers have contributed to our region and world and the importance of knowing and supporting our neighbors.

As we observed in an editorial five years ago, “The Lycoming County Fair was started just a few years after the end of the Civil War. A lot of history has passed between then and now, yet the fair persevered. The great world wars did not stop it. The Great Depression did not stop it. And now a global pandemic did not stop it.”

“If anything, the fair rolled with the times, shifting its activities and staying current with the times,” our 2021 editorial went on. “With the advent of the automobile, for instance, came cars racing on a half-mile dirt track from the 1920s through 1940s. And did you know that the fairgrounds once featured an airplane landing field, complete with hangars and a 1,700-foot runway? Famed aviator Amelia Earhart made an emergency landing at the Hughesville Fairgrounds on May 14, 1929.”

We are confident that the 2026 fair will, once again, offer countless examples of the virtues and merits of all of these values. We appreciate all of the hard work the fair’s organizers and 4-H volunteers put in, year-round, so that our Lycoming County Fair can continue to happen.