Common Ground Fair poster has a message about horses

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • January 14, 2025

This year’s Common Ground Country Fair poster features a pair of Belgian draft horses that send a subtle message. The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association revealed on Tuesday that Katherine Noble Churchill’s oil-on-linen painting of two working horses had won its annual poster design contest. It will decorate T-shirts and advertisements for the annual fair, which the association announced will run Sept. 19-21 this year. The two brown horses in the painting stand with their ears halfway back, meaning they are listening to their surroundings, according to Churchill.