Suggested Readings

• "Agricultural Fair at the Stone Mountain in Dekalb," Georgia Telegraph, July 28, 1846, p. 2. Presented online by the Digital Library of Georgia.
• Anderson, Norman D. Ferris Wheels: An Illustrated History. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1992.
• Avery, Julie A., editor. Agricultural Fairs in America: Tradition, Education, Celebration. East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University, c2000.
• Barrow, David Crenshaw, and Georgia State Agricultural Society. Education: An Address. [s. l.: s. n.].
• Coker, Robert. Roller Coasters: A Thrill Seeker's Guide to the Ultimate Scream Machines. New York: Main Street, 2004.
• Fried, Frederick. A Pictorial History of the Carousel. Vestal, N.Y.: Vestal Press, 1982.
• Georgia. Dept. of Agriculture, and Thomas P. Janes. A Manual of Georgia for the Use of Immigrants and Capitalists. Atlanta, 1878. Available online: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/georgiabooks/do-pdf:gb0088
• Georgia 4-H History. Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Co., c2008.
• Grace, Arthur. State Fair. 1st ed., Focus on American History Series. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.
• Handbook on Agricultural Education in Public Schools. 6th ed. Clifton Park, N.Y.: Thomson Delmar Learning, c2008.
• Hokanson, Drake, and Carol Kratz. Purebred & Homegrown: America's County Fairs. Madison, Wis.: Terrace Books, 2008.
• Hubbard, Julie. "Georgia State Fair Celebrates 150 Years of Entertaining." Macon Telegraph, 26 September 2005.
• Jenkins, Herbert T. Food, Fairs and Farmers' Markets in Atlanta: Recollections ... on the Early Days, Growth and Expansion of the Produce Business and Its Influence upon the City of Atlanta. Limited 1st edition. Atlanta: Center for Research in Social Change, Emory University, c1977.
• Kniffen, Fred. "The American Agricultural Fair: Time and Place." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 41, no. 1 (1951): 42-57.
• Marti, Donald B. Historical Directory of American Agricultural Fairs. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.
• Mitchell, Susan K. The Biggest Thrill Rides. Pleasantville, N.Y.: G. Stevens Pub., 2008.
• Neely, Wayne Caldwell. The Agricultural Fair. New York: Columbia University Press, 1935.
• Nelson, Derek. The American State Fair. Osceola, Wis.: MBI Publishing, 1999.
• Nickell, Joe. Secrets of the Sideshows. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
• Pierce, George Foster, and Southern Central Agricultural Society. Anniversary Address Delivered before the Southern Central Agricultural Society at August, Georgia, October 20, 1853. Augusta, Ga.: Steam Power Press of Chronicle & Sentinel, 1853.
• Prosterman, Leslie Mina. Ordinary Life, Festival Days: Aesthetics in the Midwestern County Fair. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
• Pruett, Joe F. A History of Exchange Clubs in Georgia, 1928-1980. Macon, Ga.: Georgia District Exchange Clubs, 1980.
• Range, Willard. A Century of Georgia Agriculture, 1850-1950. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1954.
• Rasmussen, Wayne D. Taking the University to the People: Seventy-five Years of Cooperative Extension. 1st ed. Iowa State University Press, 1989.
• Reynolds, Robert R. Roller Coasters, Flumes & Flying Saucers: The Story of Ed Morgan & Carl Bacon, Ride Inventors of the Modern Amusement Parks. Jupiter, Fla.: Northern Lights Pub., 1999.
• Simms, Kristina. Macon, Georgia's Central City: An Illustrated History. 1st ed. Chatsworth, Calif.: Windsor Publications, 1989.
• Soden, Garrett. Defying Gravity: Land Divers, Roller Coasters, Gravity Bums, and the Human Obsession with Falling. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2005.
• Southern Central Agricultural Society and David W. Lewis. Transactions of the Southern Central Agricultural Society, from Its Organization in 1846 to 1851. Printed by B.F. Griffin, 1852.
• Stencell, A. W. Girl Show: Into the Canvas World of Bump and Grind. Toronto: ECW Press, 1999.
• Wessel, Thomas R. 4-H, an American Idea, 1900-1980: A History of 4-H. Chevy Chase, Md.: National 4-H Council, c1982.