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So each year I post about the Butter Sculpture at the Iowa State Fair.

It's sort of been a who's who of culture and history - Butter Elvis, Star Trek, the Last Supper, Tiger Woods, the moon landing, Snow White, Dr Seuss, John Wayne, Superman and many others.

I didn't see much of anything written about ths year's Butter Sculpture.  Perhaps in the Facebook/Reddit age, things truly have to be bizzare to go viral.

In any case, while it's good to see a salute to literature, Butter Laura Ingalls Wilder doesn't have the same buzz as Butter Spock.



I looked up Wilder, and my initial thought was the Dakotas.  Indeed, you can travel her home and museum in South Dakota.

Wilder did live in Iowa, though not on the Western side, as you might expect, but on the East.  She was born in Wisconsin and she taught on the other side f the Iowa/Wisconsin border.  She also spent a large amount of her life in Missouri, which could stake a claim to her, and as far as I can tell- Kansas, Minnesota, and New York too.

In any case, not a year passes that i don't post something about the butter sculpture, so mark this one in the books.

Inevitably, you saw my post on the Butter Cow being vandalized.  A Vegan Rights Group member hid in the building where the butter cow is kept and poured red paint on the cow and graffiti-ed over the window.

So, what did we learn?

Well, first off paint doesn't really stick to butter.  The butter sculptor was able to wash off the paint and have the Cow ready to go before fairgoers came in the next day.

We also learned you don't mess with the Butter Cow.



The Fair sold 3000 Butter Cow Security t-shirts in the last few days, and thousands more are ordered, and the maker plans to sell them online weeks after the Fair.

The Animal Liberation Front still says it was totally worth it, but clearly, the effect has generally been favorable towards the Butter Bovine.

Meanwhile, the butter cow at the Illinois State Fair hasn't seen added security after this incident, though, it does have its own 24/7 webcam.

As the Fair reaches it last day, it was also grist for Scott Brown (remember him?  ex-Massachusetts senator?) who visited the fair today, clearly and unashamedly here for the first steps of a 2016 election run.  Brown was on local news putting in a good word for the Cow.