THIS PAGE: Olivia Myers poses with a baby cow from her and her sister Emily’ s farm, Grumpy Girls Farm. Myers was the Princess of the 2023 Washington County Fair and kept up with her duties by helping contestants showcase their artwork during the 2024 Mini Prince and Princess contest. OPPOSITE PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Kaylin Couto, of Rodfame Farm in Middletown, takes home Grand Champion Beef Showman amongst other awards pictured in hand. D Clara Mayhew of Richmond shows off her third-place ribbons for the Fall Ayrshire calf class open and youth show, along with her show cow, Oake Knoll MB Rumor Has It. The Mayhew family of Cottrell Homestead has been exhibiting purebred Ayrshire cattle at the fair since it began. D Gibson William Ross, of Brushy Brook Farm in Hope Valley, guides one of his cows by a leash. D Cooper O’ Keefe, a member of the Suffolk Sheep Breed Association, holds up the head and neck of Dorper, the black-headed sheep, as it gets inspected during a sheep show.
114 RHODE ISLAND MONTHLY I AUGUST 2025