HARDWICK — A bucolic fair that traces its roots to 1762 and boasts of being “the Oldest Fair in America,” will be among community, county and major fairs absent this year from the end of summer landscape.Come Aug. 21 and 22, there will be no aroma of kettle corn and Italian sausage wafting over the Hardwick Common. No ring of steel on steel from student blacksmiths; no bellowing of cows, no staccato roar of chainsaws at dusk; no youngsters taking a plunge in the dunk […]