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The Tennessee Valley Fair we know today was born in 1916; however, we can trace its origins back to the earliest years of this century. It began as an idea in the minds of a group of progressive and in some way idealistic Knoxvillians. These men dreamed of making their city the shinning centerpieces of a prosperous and modernized Appalachian.
Lead by the regions most enterprising citizens – businessmen, publishers, educators, and others, they conceived the idea of bringing to their city a great exposition, which would serve as a showcase for Knoxville and all of southern Appalachia, drawing national attention to the city’s promising start in commerce and industry and to the region’s bountiful (but as yet undeveloped) natural and human resources. Thus was born the Appalachian Exposition of 1910.
The 1910 Exposition was a tremendous success, and continued in 1911 and 1913. After much negotiations and persuasions, organizers promoted an annual an annual Fair which was to be named the East Tennessee Division Fair and was first held in 1916. The Fair promoted improved methods of agriculture and raising livestock, but also displayed the improvements of labor, industry, education, and sciences.
The first Fair, in 1916, set the pattern for all those which followed over the next nine decades. In 1932, the Fair rechartered as a non-profit and renamed the Tennessee Valley Agricultural and Industrial Fair.
The Fair struck a healthy balance between entertainment and education, between lighthearted fun and serious business. It highlighted the products of East Tennessee’s farms (in close cooperation with the University of Tennessee’s Agriculture Department and Extension Service), but also drew attention to the regions industry and com-merce. Moreover, the Fair awarded premiums to encourage farmers and homemakers to improve their products, stimulated competition among the region’s counties and communities for recognition of their achievements and showed Fair-goers the latest innovations for home and farm. And it brought before the commercial exhibitors thousands of potential customers.
A great deal remains unchanged; however the Midway today offers much of the same of thrills and oddities as it did ninety years earlier, and the Fair’s nightly fireworks seem never to lose their appeal to Fair-goers of all ages. Most importantly, whatever the effects of social, economic, and technological change in the world around it, the Fair remains for all East Tennesseans a place to learn, to compete, to have fun, and most of all to build memories.
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one day i will be 26, live w my mom, and then leave for Tennessee in the hopes that my life situation will improve
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Fucking shit. You're all a bunch of fucking teenage girls.
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one day i will shift back to the person who hates everyone else, and clearly myself
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one day i will realize my dad's presence in my life helped to shape it the way it is
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matts waiting on the day he can cash in the rune scape gold for big bucks
