It was an afternoon of fun, games and entertainment as Chadds Ford Elementary School held its 63rd annual May Fair on May 18. Each class, K-5, performed its own musical number based on this year’s theme, A Healthy Body. There was also the traditional Maypole Dance and Parachute Party.
During the entertainment portion, school nurse Julie Krause was named Fair Queen. She’s leaving the school at the end of this academic year.
After the official end of the school day, there were carnival games and a dunk tank where school Principal Mark Ransford got dunked.
Ransford also passed on some historical information regarding May Fair that, when it was first held in 1949, it was a rodeo with horses, riders and cattle coming up from Texas.
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I don’t believe it was a rodeo, but,if memory serves me right, there were cattle from Texas at the farm across from the school. They were part of King Ranch and were frequently herded by horses and riders along Baltimore Pike to fresh pasture.
I stand slightly corrected. The cattle were owned by S.B. Davis and, someone older than me said, yes in the early 1950s there was a rodeo type exhibit at the May Fair. Some of the riders from S.B. Davis did a roping demonstration, etc. This old person also told me that there was a loading shute at the railroad tracks where Taylor’s Auto Service is now. It’s where the cattle from Texas were unloaded.
Did you know at about the same time S.B. Davis also had buffalo on his farm? You could see them as you drove along Baltimore Pike by Chadds Ford Elementary School.