Contact the Ledyard Fair for Inquiries and Support

Getting in Touch with the Fair

Most questions reach us by email, and most get answered within a couple of business days. The fair runs on the energy of a small association team and a wide circle of volunteers, so we'd rather give you a real answer than an automated one.

Before you write, it helps to know that the busiest stretch runs from late summer through fair weekend. Replies slow down then, not because we've stopped reading, but because half the office is out on the fairgrounds checking livestock pens and untangling extension cords.

Bethany Pierce, our Director, handles incoming questions and points each one toward the right person. You can always start with her: [email protected]. If your question is about visiting hours, parking, or what's on this year, the visitor information pages usually answer it faster than we can.

General Business Inquiries

This is the catch-all lane. Vendor questions, exhibitor paperwork, lost-and-found follow-ups, a refund you're not sure about — send them here and we'll route them.

A few things move faster when you include them up front. Tell us which year and event you're asking about, attach any confirmation numbers you have, and let us know the best window to reach you. We've found that a three-line email with the right details gets resolved quicker than a long one that makes us write back asking what you actually need.

For anything administrative, write to [email protected] and put a short subject line on it. "Vendor electrical question" beats "Hi" every time.

Press and Media Requests

Reporters, photographers, local bloggers — we like working with you. The fair has been a fixture in this corner of Connecticut for generations, and we're happy to help you tell that story well.

Media requests go through the Director. Email [email protected] with your outlet, your deadline, and what you're after. If you need press credentials for fair weekend, ask early; on-site access is coordinated in advance, and walk-up requests during the event are tough to accommodate when the grounds are full.

What we can usually provide

• Background on the fair's history and the association's heritage
• Interviews with organizers, judges, or longtime exhibitors
• Schedule details for competitions and entertainment
• Photo access to specific areas, arranged ahead of time

Give us a real deadline and we'll respect it. Tell us "sometime soon" and we'll assume you mean next week.

Partnership and Sponsorship Opportunities

The fair stays affordable for families because local businesses and organizations help carry the load. Sponsorship isn't just a logo on a banner here — it's the reason the grandstand show happens and the youth competitions stay free to enter.

We work with sponsors at several levels, from a single event tie-in to season-long support. The right fit depends on what you want out of it: visibility at the gate, presence in the arena, a hand in a community program, or something we haven't thought of yet. Bring us the idea and we'll figure out the shape of it together.

To open that conversation, email [email protected] with a sentence or two about your organization and what draws you to the fair. You can also read more about how volunteers and sponsors plug into the work throughout the year.

Our Association Team

Behind every email is a real person who probably also spends fair weekend directing traffic or judging pies. The Ledyard Fair is run by the association — a mix of volunteers and organizers who've been at this, in many cases, for decades.

Bethany Pierce serves as Director and is your first person to contact for nearly everything on this page. When a question belongs to someone else's corner, she'll hand it off and let you know who's picking it up.

If you'd like to know who else keeps the fair running, the full Fair Association Team page introduces the people behind the events. And for anything that doesn't fit a neat category, the simplest path is still an email to [email protected]. We read all of them.