Bob Head, a demolition derby promoter at
the Chautauqua County Fair, described the loss of the state event as heartbreaking.
When I was a kid in the 1970s in Dunkirk, a factory town west of Buffalo, I'd occasionally join a flood of children trying to sneak into the nearby
Chautauqua County Fair: If my memory is correct after more than 40 years, it may have been the first time I ever climbed a barbed wire fence.