The 2019 passing of Larry Schwartz – who along with Kirby Cabler in 2014 initially began the Pig Project associated with the Brown County Youth Fair – has not deterred the family from carrying on his legacy.
Now known as the Good Samaritan Ministries Larry Schwartz Memorial Pig Project, the Schwartz family – with the assistance of monetary contributions and donations from community members – are making certain their patriarch’s passion endures.
“It was created as a way to help the kids for the youth fair but also to help the community,” said Shannon Adams, Larry Schwartz’s daughter. “Basically they started it as a way to benefit the kids at the youth fair that do not make the sale for whatever reason, whether their pig didn’t place or it was sifted because it weighed too much or whatever the case may be. We pay the kids for their pigs. Then it also helps the community because the meat is provided to Good Sam who in turn gives it to the people who come into their