A traveling exhibit that’s visited nearly 50 states and Canada and welcomed over 500,000 people is making its second appearance at the Washington County Fair this weekend.

The Tunnel to Towers Foundation 9/11 NEVER FORGET Mobile Exhibit will be open from 1-7 p.m. Sunday through Tuesday at the fairgrounds, free for fairgoers. The 83-foot tractor-trailer first came to the fair in 2018, and Fair Board Member Amanda Russell hopes that Washington residents will give the same welcome as before when it arrives this Saturday, “They will start off at the Ainsworth Four Corners at 2 p.m. along with other local heroes. So you’ll have the firetrucks, ambulances and all that also joining in on the escort and hoping that the community comes together like they did because it was very impressive and [we] want to show them that we welcome them to the county and along the route where they will then be displayed at the Washington County Fair.”

Russell says there will be new displays in the mobile exhibit since its last appearance, and New York City firefighters will be on hand to give firsthand accounts of the 9/11 attacks and its aftermath. The proceeds that the exhibit collects goes to the foundation’s work in constructing custom homes for catastrophically injured service members, paying off remaining mortgages for families left behind when a firefighter or police officer is killed in the line of duty, and other programs.