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Seasonal workers in Maine brace for long winter amid coronavirus

Editor CBS News September 18, 2020

There’ll be no crowing this year at Fryeburg Fair’s annual Handsome Rooster contest – a poultry staple of Maine’s largest festival – with participants submitting snapshots online as part of a week-long “virtual fair” on Facebook and Instagram. The Pig Scramble Gamble, Gorgeous Goat competition, and Moo-La-Palooza are also going virtual this October amid the coronavirus pandemic.

March and April saw thousands of “we-regret-to-inform-you” messages on social media about summertime festivals, weddings and camps dotting Maine’s coast and countryside.

“We hope to see you August 4-8, 2021,” a neon blue notice atop the website of Maine’s Annual Lobster Festival flashes. “We hope to see you all next year,” the Machias Blueberry Festival advertises. “Be Well!”

The state was recently reminded of the devastation that can be wrought by the virus. One wedding in rural Maine became a coronavirus “superspreader” event that left …continued .
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