(1 Aug 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Philadelphia, Mississippi - 30 July 2025
1. Mike Hardy, fairgoer, holds his granddaughter
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Hardy, fairgoer:
"Here we are at cabin 95."
3. Exterior of hardy cabin
++SOUNDBITE FULLY COVERED BY SHOTS 5 & 6++
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Hardy, fairgoer:
"At the world famous Neshoba County Fair, Mississippi's giant house party."
5. People walk through fair rides and food stands
6. Rack focus on fair cabins
++SOUNDBITE PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOTS 6, 8 & 9++
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Hardy, fairgoer:
"You see on our wall, we've got clothesline art and history from all over the years. You learn to tiptoe up these stairs at night if you're the last one up. You don't want to wake up the whole, the whole crowd, and we have — we have like 20, 20 people that are staying at the fair this year in our cabin so."
8. Child runs out of cabin upstairs
9. Father and two kids sit at table
10. Mother holds up baby inside Hardy cabin
++SOUNDBITE FULLY COVERED BY SHOTS 10 & 12++
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Hardy, fairgoer:
"It's an annual high school reunion, family reunion and college reunion."
12. People stand on cabin balcony
13. Madison Hardy-Dennis, fairgoer, stands in cabin kitchen
++SOUNDBITE PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOT 13++
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Madison Hardy-Dennis, fairgoer:
"It's something that we'll always come to if I'm physically able, and I hope that my kids, once I'm gone, you know, I hope my kids continue to appreciate it as well."
15. Horses race across track
++SOUNDBITE PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOTS 15 & 17++
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Sid Salter, fairgoer:
"The only way to really experience this phenomena is to come here and see it for yourself and take part in it."
17. Hardy family watches horse races
++SOUNDBITE FULLY COVERED BY SHOTS 17, 19 & 20++
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Sid Salter, fairgoer:
"In a sea of change in every facet of our lives, the fair is constant."
19. People talk on porch
20. Hardy family sits and talks inside cabin
STORYLINE:
Once a year, hundreds of brightly colored cabins come to life with the sound of children playing and smells of Southern comfort food in what's known as Mississippi's “giant house party,” the Neshoba County Fair.
The fair touts itself as the largest campground fair in the country, where attendees cram into more than 500 two-and-three story cabins for eight days every summer. The larger cabins can sleep upwards of 30 people, sometimes in the same room.
“It's like having two Christmases a year,” said Mike Hardy, who attends the fair just about every year and shared a cabin this year with 20 members of his family, from infants to grandparents.
For Hardy, who lives more than 300 miles (500 kilometers) away in Nashville, Tennessee, the fair is one of the only times he visits his hometown. He calls it a high school, college and family reunion all wrapped into one.
“I would... [truncated]
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