After last year’s cancellation, vendors react to return of NYS Fair Will Fudge | Staff Photographer For many vendors, the fair is their biggest event of the year. This year’s event will include vendors such as Big Kahuna’s Fair Foods and Ashley Lynn Winery. Facebook Subscribe to our newsletter here. Every year since 2003, Marie Pelton and Jim Victor receive between 800 and 1,000 pounds of butter to create their butter sculptures for the New York State Fair. The Philadelphia couple use their backgrounds in fine arts to create the fair’s butter sculpture, spending about 20 days preparing it. “It’s always a unique experience creating something for the fair and American Dairy,” Pelton said. “People always seem to be very excited and very interested in what it’s going to be.”