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DES MOINES -- The Iowa State Fair’s butter cow not only celebrates its 105th anniversary this August, but also gets to help the Star Trek toast its 50th year. The butter cow became a regular ...
Grand Ave. in Des Moines, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Iowa State Fair, Aug. 10-20. When did the Iowa State Fair start sculpting a butter cow? In 1911, J.K. Daniels sculpted the Fair's first ...
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The butter cow was joined by an ode to the Iowa State Fair's Sky Glider and late-night comedians at the Ag Building at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on Aug. 9, 2024. In 2006, after 15 years of ...
Iowa State Fair has had a butter cow since 1911 The sculpture uses about 600 pounds of butter The butter can be reused up to 10 years DES MOINES, Iowa — Vandals covered the Iowa State Fair's ...
DES MOINES — Since its debut in 1911, the Iowa State Fair’s Butter Cow has involved about 600 pounds of pure cream butter, four hoofs and a couple handfuls of buttery fingers. In those 113 ...
THE IOWA STATE FAIR BEGINS ONE WEEK FROM TOMORROW, AND ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR THINGS TO SEE IS THE BUTTER COW. THE SCULPTOR SARAH PRATT STOPPED BY DES MOINES CENTRAL LIBRARY MONDAY TO TEACH 74 ...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — More than 1 million people typically visit the Iowa State Fair each year, and sometimes it seems like every one of them is clustered around the Butter Cow's climate ...
IT IS DAY TWO OF THE IOWA STATE FAIR, AND ONE POPULAR STOP IS THE ICE CARVING COMPETITION ... phone.See all of our Iowa State Fair coverage here. DES MOINES, Iowa — One of the coolest spots ...
The Iowa State ... since 2014 and is a Des Moines native. He'll be joined by current host Jimmy Fallon in taking part of the 100-plus year Iowa State Fair tradition of butter sculpting.