Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Founded in 1907 as the Beaumont Fair, the South Texas State Fair is an annual regional state fair featuring a livestock show, commercial exhibition, and carnival midway. Boasting an annual attendance of more than 500,000 people, the event is only second in statewide popularity to the State Fair of Texas in Dallas. In this live news broadcast for KFDM-TV, reporter Tom Wright learns how to make taffy with Kennedy Candies at the 1995 fair.

Watch the full video at: tinyurl.com/ys345f9v
Explore the web exhibit, Festival Season, at: bit.ly/4pUGtjE
Contributed to the Texas Moving Image Archive Program by Tom Wright.

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