The Illinois State Fair features a lifesize, hand-sculpted replica of a dairy cow — made entirely out of hundreds of pounds of butter. The annual creation dates back a century.
‘As a dairy farmer’s wife I know where all the bumps and curves are on a cow’
Lyon used more than 300 pounds of butter for her Illinois State Fair butter cow in 1970, the first year the Tribune interviewed her about her work.Norma ‘Duffy’ Lyon: Sculptor of Illinois State Fair butter cows gets a pat on the back At the Iowa State Fair one year, she saw a butter cow that didn’t look right. Lyon said she could do better. So in 1960, 7 1/2 months’ pregnant with the seventh of her nine children, she helped with her first cow.Norma"Duffy" Lyon, works on her Elvis Presley rendered in butter on Aug. 7, 1997, at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines.
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