Hillsboro in the Little Levels District of WV puts together a fun little fair on the grounds of the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace.  Persistent rain cut our attendance short but we caught the highlights:  The heritage Parade, my favorite float was the Senior Citizens of Hillsboro carrying their women’s group, “The Merry Struters.  The BBQ Chicken dinner brought to us by the local Methodist Church.  A sampling of local Bluegrass music, Richard Hefner and the Black Mountain Bluegrass Boys.  A tour of a local grist mill that they are actively trying to restore.  The caretaker/renovator clearly loves his work and makes a wonderful tour guide.

Did you know that they bleached wheat flour with ozone to make “white flour”?  They pipe the gas to a tumbler and tada, white flour. This is the first mill we have toured that had an ozone generator.

Kent was excited to stumble upon a local woman’s baked goods booth that included the difficult to find salt rising bread.  Of course we brought some home.