State Fair

The Frakes--father Abel, mother Melissa, and young-adult children Wayne and Margy--are an Iowa farm family getting ready to go to the multi-day Iowa State Fair. Wayne isn't looking forward to leaving his girlfriend Eleanor behind, and Margy just wants to be a relationship with a real man instead of being courted by--and unofficially engaged to--the boorish Harry Ware. At the fair, Melissa is hoping she made the right decision about the mincemeat she has entered for judging, and Abel's potentially prize-winning boar Blue Boy has a case of lovesickness. Also lovestruck are Wayne and Margy--Wayne with big-band singer Emily Edwards who is performing at the fair, and Margy with Pat Gilbert, a Des Moines Register reporter who is covering the fair for the newspaper. Can both the young Frakes' romances extend beyond the length of the fair, especially considering their big-city vs. farm-life differences--Emily's which takes her across the country to perform, and Pat's which might earn him a more lucrative job as a columnist with a prestigious Chicago newspaper.