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The Oregon Country Fair (OCF) is a nonprofit organization, and an annual three-day fair held outside the city limits of Veneta, Oregon, United States. Located in the Willamette Valley, the site is about west of Eugene along the Long Tom River near the unincorporated community of Elmira. Annual attendance is approximately 45,000,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Oregon Country Fair )〕 and the fair has around 960 booths each year. The event is known as an outgrowth of the counter-culture movement, and for using environmentally-friendly practices during the fair.〔 The Oregon Country Fair begins on the Friday of the second weekend in July every year. ==History== The first fair was held in Eugene, over the weekend of November 1–2, 1969. It was promoted with the tagline, "come in costume". The fair began as a craft fair to raise funds for an alternative school, the Children's Community School.〔 The event moved to its current location in Veneta, about 13 miles west of Eugene, for the fall fair in October, 1970, after having had a May Fair the same year on Crow Road, about halfway between Eugene and Veneta.〔 In August 1972 and August 1982, OCF hosted concerts headlined by the Grateful Dead. Known as "Field Trips", that first concert was held as a benefit for the Springfield Creamery, which is owned by members of Ken Kesey's family. Until 1977, the fair was known as the ''Oregon Renaissance Faire''.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oregon Country Fair」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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