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We love hearing stories from Mississippi natives. We broadcast from northern Mississippi,

the small bucolic town, a beautiful college town called Oxford. We're about an hour south of Memphis.

Randall Haley is from the Mississippi Delta, but came into Oxford for school and for work.

Like most people that move away from home, she at times got a little homesick.

Here's Randall with her story.

There were three things that Oxford did best.

In 1995, a young woman full of ambition and determined to celebrate the food, music, and art

of Oxford, Mississippi couldn't be deterred from the idea of a festival on the square.

I knew it would work.

Now, I don't know if that's just because I was young and naive, didn't know enough

to know it might not work, or I'm bad about thinking I can make whatever happen. Once I

decided, I'm like, yeah, we're going to make it happen. Robin Tannahill was hired in June of

1995 to be the director of the Oxford Tourism Council,

which is now called Visit Oxford.

Tanna Hill immediately began work on her first project.

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