‘We come every year’: Families make memories at annual fair
The sweet scent of funnel cakes and cotton candy wafted through the air at the Columbus Fairgrounds this week during the opening nights of the Lowndes County Fair hosted by Mississippi Delta Shows.
Columbus fair organizers expecting bigger crowds
The Lowndes County Fair had about 3,000 attendees in 2011.
That number jumped to nearly 5,000 last year and if you ask Jane Burns Jordan, the president of the Columbus Fair and Livestock Association, the reason for the increase is clear.
“We brought livestock back,” she said.
Livestock returns to Lowndes County Fair
It’s hard to imagine a county fair without a livestock show, but for many years — more than Jane Burns Jordan can remember — farm animals have been conspicuously absent from the sights, smells and sounds of the Lowndes County Fair.