A Cow, a Crown and a New Girl in Town!
A Cow, A Crown and a New Girl in Town A Salute to a Former Fall Festival Queen As summer yields to fall here in Dixon, there are certain things that you can set your watch by. The return to school brings back busy weekday mornings with the roar of buses, the leaves begin to tease us about the upcoming fall splendor, there is noticeably less daylight as the days become shorter and shorter, also the faint smell of smoke as the local wood burning stoves begin to fire. Then, there is Cow Days. In the fall of 1984, Helen Winters had an idea for the re-boot of Cow Days—which was Dixon’s fall festival that had somehow fallen by the wayside several years earlier. Connie Eiserman began to organize the event and began a merchant’s association which we now know as our Dixon Area Chamber of Commerce. The first Cow Days had a very different face than what we see today. The original idea of Cow Days was to bring people to town to showcase t...
