The Eastern States Exposition

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The Big E
The Big E in West Springfield, Massachusetts in 2007
Status	Active
Genre	Agricultural show
Begins	Second Friday after Labor Day
Ends	Seventeen days after it opens
Frequency	Annual
Venue	Eastern States Exposition
Location(s)	1305 Memorial Ave. West Springfield, MA 01089
Inaugurated	1917 (1917)
Founder	Joshua L. Brooks
Attendance	1,633,935 (2024)[1]
Area	New England
Website	thebige.com

The Big E, formally known as The Eastern States Exposition, is an annual fair in West Springfield, Massachusetts, which opens on the second Friday after Labor Day and runs for seventeen days.

It is billed as "New England's Great State Fair," the largest agricultural event on the eastern seaboard and the fifth-largest fair in the nation.^[2] The Big E is inclusive of all six New England states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.