Dutchess County Fair - Legacy of Agriculture & Community
Sep 23, 2026 · 22 min · 10 segments
How do you move an entire carnival hundreds of miles and have it ready to open again just days later? Corky and Tracy of Powers Amusements take us behind the scenes of the enormous operation…
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And the actual rides themselves, have they changed or evolved? I mean, are they...
Absolutely, 100%.
The electronics and everything.
Her husband especially.
We have some real key people.
Some people just don't get electronics.
I don't.
I can promise you that.
I'm back in a day of welding rod right and uh mechanics wire but anyway or
gas motor yeah not too much
very sophisticated now and uh and the great thing is they can go online a lot of times and figure out the problem and usually normally it's just a little glitch here or there yeah computers and it's just a matter of a matter of things happening
ride? Yes, and we go to seminars.
We have guys that go to safety schools, and safety is our number one concern.
Nobody wants anyone getting hurt, and that's a big priority.
Money doesn't mean anything if somebody's going to get hurt.
And I can't say...
They don't trip and fall or whatever.
There's little things that can happen.
And, you know, unfortunately, we just do our very, very best to make sure that doesn't happen.
I'm sure Tracy and myself, we all walk around all the time.
We see little things, and we always tell our parents, Our people that work for us, if you see something that doesn't look
tell us.
And I have to say, most of our H2V workers have been with us for several years.

And the actual rides themselves, have they changed or evolved? I mean, are they...
Absolutely, 100%.
The electronics and everything.
Her husband especially.
We have some real key people.
Some people just don't get electronics.
I don't.
I can promise you that.
I'm back in a day of welding rod right and uh mechanics wire but anyway or
gas motor yeah not too much
very sophisticated now and uh and the great thing is they can go online a lot of times and figure out the problem and usually normally it's just a little glitch here or there yeah computers and it's just a matter of a matter of things happening
ride? Yes, and we go to seminars.
We have guys that go to safety schools, and safety is our number one concern.
Nobody wants anyone getting hurt, and that's a big priority.
Money doesn't mean anything if somebody's going to get hurt.
And I can't say...
They don't trip and fall or whatever.
There's little things that can happen.
And, you know, unfortunately, we just do our very, very best to make sure that doesn't happen.
I'm sure Tracy and myself, we all walk around all the time.
We see little things, and we always tell our parents, Our people that work for us, if you see something that doesn't look
tell us.
And I have to say, most of our H2V workers have been with us for several years.
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