Sharon BuMann, a butter sculptor, is creating a sculpture of King Tut for the New York State Fair in 2005. As butter sculptures must be kept refrigerated, BuMann has to work bundled up. Previous sculptures at the fair have included Elvis Presley singing "Hound Dog" and children riding a gondola tribute to the fair's new Texas SkyWay.

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Sharon BuMann’s depiction of Elvis Presley singing “Hound Dog” had fairgoers howling in appreciation in 2005. Like
the condiment, each butter sculpture has to be kept refrigerated, so Ms. BuMann has to bundle up while she works.
Buttering up the boy king for the fair
McCain and Barack Obama shortening
to a month, require increasing inventive-
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statues.
ness and demand acumen and cunning to
And when New York’s State Fair ends
dress took the stage in 2006. Last year’s rival other state fairs across the country.
next week, students at the state universi-
display included kids riding a gondola as Will King Tut hold his own against oth-
ty’s College of Environmental Science and
part of a tribute to the fair’s new Texas er condiment displays throughout the
Forestry will convert 900 pounds of the fa-
SkyWay. Sharon BuMann, the sculptor U.S.?
mous nursery rhyme cow jumping over
who produced those displays, will return Iowa featured a chiseled butter depic-
the moon into biodiesel.
this year to make King Tut. tion of Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson
It will power five round-trips to the Ad-
Butter sculptures sound plain, but at its state fair last month. The Erie Coun-
irondacks.
these lard carvings need to stay firm for up ty Fair has produced dueling John