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Suzi Prozanski
has attended the Oregon Country Fair since 1984 and
has been an active participant since 1990. For more
than a decade, she interviewed more than 300 fair
participants to document the fair's history. She
also researched archived newspapers files, early
fair records, and many old fair documents and
photographs generously shared by fair folks.
The release of Brigadoon of
the Sixties: Revelry and Kerfuffles at the
Oregon Country Fair, continues the story that
began in
Fruit of the Sixties: The Founding of the Oregon
Country Fair. These two books detail the
history of the Country Fair from its founding as a
fundraiser for a children's school in 1969 through
its foundational years. They detail the start of
many of the fair's cherished traditions as well as
the problems organizers encountered while putting on
the event year after year.
A journalist for more than two decades, Suzi
worked for the Houston Post and the Eugene
Register-Guard, and taught courses in
reporting and copy editing as an adjunct
instructor at the University of Oregon School of
Journalism and Communication.
Suzi helped staff a friend's pottery booth at the
fair in 1990, volunteered for the Info Crew in
1993, and switched to the Fair Family News crew in
2003 to help produce the fair's friends monthly
newsletter. More recently, she joined the fair's
Jill Heiman Vision Fund Committee and currently
serves as its chair.
Exploring the origins of this Essential Event
turned into a labor of love that offered a
wonderful reason to visit in depth with many good
friends, old and new.
About the Author
