2010 Scholarship Winner - Katlyn Marie Barnes

Katlyn Marie Barnes is a 2010 graduate of Lincoln County High School. She has Lincoln County Fair in her blood! She has been active in the Fair as a participant in the beauty pageants from Little Miss to Fairest of the Fair. She was second runner up in the Miss Teen pageant her sophomore year. Before she was even old enough to be in 4-H she helped present ribbons at the Fair cattle shows. She has been active in 4-H over the years, serving as Vice President the past two years of the 4-H Honor Club and Secretary before that. She has submitted many 4-H entries in the Fair over the years.
Katlyn has throughout her high school years been active in Beta Club, Spirit Club, First Priority Club, Skills USA serving as reporter and the Annual staff serving as editor her last two years. She has been involved in Student Council and served as Class President her Sophomore and Junior years. She is a member of the Howell Cumberland Presbyterian Church where she assists with Vacation Bible School and is involved with the Youth Group. She has been active in FFA, serving as Vice-President in 9th grade and participating in State and regional competitions. She has worked Farm Safety and Farm City Days held here on the fairgrounds.
Her senior year Katlyn has been active in community service on the Lincoln County Government Youth Advisory Board, the Chamber of Commerce Student Advisory Board and was involved in Youth Leadership Lincoln serving as President. She served as the first Tennessee Representative from Lincoln County to the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Youth Leadership Council. Katlyn plans on attending University of Tennessee in Chattanooga this fall.

Memories of the Lincoln County Fair
By Katlyn Barnes

I love everything about the fair! The food, the rides, the cow shows, the pageants, the 4-H exhibits. The “smells” and “sounds.” Only a true fair lover would know what I mean by the smells and the sounds. There is just nothing like the smell of funnel cakes or polish sausage with onions cooking and oh to hear Mr. Charlie say “heeere they come.”

My favorite memories of the fair are of me as a little girl sitting in Daddy Paul’s box on my daddy’s lap watching the harness races. I didn’t understand anything about the races, what I remember was the warm, fuzzy felling I got sitting there with daddy and my great granddaddy, hearing them talk and laugh. We spent many afternoons in that box eating hamburgers and playing quarters. I thought I was grown up when I was allowed to put a quarter in Daddy Paul’s cap and draw out a number of a horse. If my horse won, I got to keep the four or five quarters that were in his cap.

I am proud to be the next generation to carry on the love of the Lincoln County Fair in my family.