Neshoba Co. Fair starts today

[Guru]

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The Neshoba County Fair kicks off at 4 p.m. Rides, games, treats, live music and political stump speeches await for the reasonable price of $15 per day or $30 for the week.

[Nana]

I've wanted to go there for many years but this isn't going to be the year I make it. I've heard so many folks say how great it is.

[SoMissTV]

You don't want to go; trust me.

[Fotno]

Why not?
I've only been once,but I did enjoy it.

[threekidspa]

You don't want to go; trust me.
What's wrong with the Neshoba County Fair? Just wondering, since we've never been to it.

[Nana]

All I've ever heard was good things. I've seen folks take time off for this months in advance just to make sure they can go.

[SoMissTV]

Depends on what you enjoy, I guess. It's hot, humid, crowded, and dusty.

Just not my idea of a good time.

[Guru]

I've been several times, guest of people that live there.
Let me give you a little overview:
The whole area shuts down yearly for the fair. Everything just about but basic necessities.
People own small patches of real estate on the fair grounds, just enough to build a cabin. Some of them are large, some small. All of them immediately next to each other within a few feet.
From daylight until the next daylight for the entire time the fair goes on you visit at your cabin, at someone else's cabin, walking around the fair grounds, cook and invite or visit and sample the best the world has to offer.
There is the fair, a real fair.
There are the old time horse races. A real old time stadium.
Foot races while the horses are resting.
Midnight parties and concerts on the neutral ground at the race track.
There are political speeches at the grand stand very much the way it was done in 1930.
There are arts & crafts you will not see anywhere else.
There are preachers, politicians, millionaires, hooligans, families, kids with cotton candy and painted faces, teenagers walking hand in hand ... and it might be time to stop by Uncle Roscoe's cabin because he is making his Frog Level bbq chicken this afternoon.
Moonshine can be found with most meals or some of the best sweetened tea in the world.
It's all evident at The Neshoba Fair.

[EricStratton]

I've only been once, and I was a real little boy.....My old man was actually working on Haley Barbour's Senatorial campaign against John Stennis....wow, that's been a long time ago.....

Anyway, the horse races are the only events I remember.....I'd like to go back sometime....I'll bet this year will be good as far as the campaign speeches, although I don't think I could handle listening to Musgrove AND Wicker....both of their voices are naturally irritating in their own distinct way.....

[Guru]

ES, there is something similar to this that goes on each year just North of you.
It's not the Franklinton Fair, they call it by the parish name.
Can't remember it right off, might need a fried egg sandwich to get my mental powers recharged.
The something Parish Fair.

[EricStratton]

Washington Parish Fair.....went there once when I was in juco at PRCC.....I was too busy drinking beer and chasing women at that time in my life to really remember what was going on at the fair.....

I may have to go back since I'm so close (30-40 minutes)

[bpitt]

Moonshine? Did someone mention moonshine?