Mid-South Fair to Desoto -- Weather, Economy Delay Tunica Site's Prep

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The Mid-South Fair, a Memphis institution for more than 150 years, will make a stopover in DeSoto County this fall before heading to a permanent home in Tunica.

Fair officials and representatives of the DeSoto Civic Center in Southaven announced Thursday that they have hammered out an agreement to conduct the fair Sept. 25-Oct. 4 on the Civic Center grounds at Interstate 55 and Church Road.

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Mid-South Fair to Desoto -- Weather, Economy Delay Tunica Site's Prep

"We leased everything from the parking lot to the convention hall to the arena to the Mid-South Fair," said Chuck Roberts, chairman of the DeSoto County Convention and Visitors Bureau and vice preside...

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