Sunshine welcomed crowds as they walked, ate and rode their way around the State Fair in Palmer. The fair runs until Sept. 4.
Stilt Circus’ Star Child and Richard Dalton pose for a photograph during opening day of the Alaska State Fair in Palmer on Friday, Aug. 18, 2023. Stilt Circus will be performing at the fair every day through Sept. 4 and each day will feature new costumes, all 28 of which were made by Child.
Marcelo Garzaro, 5, and Hugo Garzaro perform a dance with members of Anchorage’s Naa Luu Disk Gwaii Yatx’i Dance Group. The dance group has been performing at the fair since 1996. Brinley Truett, 10, goes down a slide and uses her arms to gain speed at the Alaska State Fair. The fair runs until Sept. 4, but takes off Tuesday and Wednesday each week. People wait to see which colored hole a gerbil goes into after they bet money on different colors during the Palmer Elks Lodge’s Charity Rat Race at the Alaska State Fair. A goat nibbles on the sleeve of a man’s shirt as he talks with a woman about goat care during opening day of the Alaska State Fair in Palmer.
Richard Dalton, a member of Stilt Circus, walks through a crowd on stilts during opening day of the Alaska State Fair in Palmer on Friday, Aug. 18, 2023. Emily Mesner is a multimedia journalist for the Anchorage Daily News. She previously worked for the National Park Service at Denali National Park and Preserve and the Western Arctic National Parklands in Kotzebue, at the Cordova Times and at the Jackson Citizen Patriot in Jackson, Michigan.
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