Old-Timers revisit rural pleasures at local country fair

HANOVER CENTER, N.H. -- Audrey Gilman has been watching beasts of burden do her family's dirty work for the past 34 years. It's only on special occasions, though, that she can sit in on the process for pure enjoyment. Lounging in a lawn chair Saturday at the 42nd annual Old Timer's Fair with her husband and several of their close friends, Gilman, of Salmonton, N.H., cheered on this year's prizewinning oxen as they dragged concrete slabs back and forth across a dusty field.