Peter Haakon Thompson’s Auto-Ethnographic Guide Service

Peter with tour-ees at the Salem Lutheran Church Dining Hall

Have you never had a good time at the Great Minnesota Get Together? Did you know that the Fair encompasses 320 acres and over 1,762,976 visitors?

How could one be expected to find their way around such a place, let alone find everything that makes the Fair such a unique and amazing experience? If you go fishing in Alaska you would hire a guide, why not at the State Fair?

The Salem Lutheran Church Dining Hall

Peter Haakon Thompson has spent his entire life visiting the Fair with parents who believe in arriving at 8 AM and leaving at 10pm. Have you seen the Butterheads, had breakfast at the Salem Lutheran Church Dining Hall, been to the State Fair and MN Newspaper Museums? Seen evil rabbits, collected a years supply of free pencils, eaten the ice cream of the future? These are just a few of the myriad wonders you will experience with the Auto-Ethnographic Guide Service.

New this year, Minnesota Public Radio has produced a free podcast version of the Guide Service, you can download it for free here. Listen to it before your visit or while you are at the Fair.

Evil Bunny