FARMINGTON — High school students carried tinfoil-covered plates through the fairground Tuesday as they followed teacher Sean Minear into the Exhibition Hall and up to the second floor.

The students in the culinary arts program at Foster Regional Applied Technology Center in Farmington put their plates of cookies on a table. Each had followed the Farmington Fair’s recipe and baked chocolate chip cookies for a contest.

“I cook all the time at home but this is the first time for the program here,” junior Tia Holt of Carrabassett Valley said.

Jared White of Strong, also a junior, said making the cookies was pretty easy. He enjoys the class and how his teacher lets them get right into cooking, he said.

“It’s really fun,” White said.

On the first floor of the hall, Lee Moody and Gay Reeve, both of Farmington, were looking over squash entered in a vegetable exhibit.

“We were looking at pumpkins. Some of them are really big,” Reeve said.

The couple visit the fair each year to check out exhibits and other items of interest.

Tuesday was Senior Citizens Day.

Over in the Franklin County Agricultural Society’s Agricultural Museum, people stopped and looked at tools, carriages and other antiques used years ago.

Delbert Walton and his wife, Marceline, of Livermore looked over an exhibit of tools used outdoors in barns or in the fields and gardens.

“I know a good part of them,” Delbert Walton said. “I’ve been attached to the handles of them at one time or another.”

There were push mowers in varying sizes and a wooden hand truck that resembled a wheelbarrow without sides.

He used to demonstrate antique nailing machines while he made apple boxes at the fairs. He is no longer able to do it anymore, he said.

Walton, the owner of Walton Box Co. near the Turner line, said he had one nailing machine that drove seven nails at a time powered by a gas motor.

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