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The festival has gone from a simple harvest awards day to a week-long celebration with carnival rides, games, talent shows, food vendors, parades, and still traditionally; the vegetable awards. Crafts and canned goods are displayed in the public library. The Corn School Queen is crowned every year,
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work. Then came the Corn School Week parades, and prizes for the various events soon rose to a total of $ 3,000 a year. In 1938, the LaGrange County Corn School, Inc., was established as a non-profit corporation. Fortune telling became popular at the fair, and parades did as well. The classic car
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parade is a major feature of Corn School, with local and nearby car owners showing off their cars. All parades are led by the presiding Corn School Queen, a tradition started in 1950. The Corn School Queen is chosen through a pageant; during this time, the "Citizen Of The Year" is also named.
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Since 1909, Corn School has opened on Tuesday and continued for a week. Its premium list was increased to include livestock, poultry, farm products, needlework, fruit, pastry and for a time,
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growing classes to show off their products. They were to receive prizes for their corn, and a day was to be designated in their honor. Notables such as the Governor of Indiana
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and the State Secretary of Agriculture were speakers for the event for the first couple of years.
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Corn School went on hiatus in 1917–18, 1942–1944 and 2020.
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LaGrange, Indiana
corn
Frank Hanly
4-H Club
Historic Corn School dates back to 1906
Archived
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LaGrange: Where corn once was king
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Maize and corn
Amylomaize
Baby
Blue
Dent
Field
Flint
Flour
Genetically modified
List
MON 810
MON 863
Purple
Quality Protein Maize
Shoepeg
Sweet
Varieties
Waxy
Bolivia

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