Flowers for Philadelphia, MS

For one week every summer, the busiest place in Mississippi is a hillside of wooden cabins outside Philadelphia — the Neshoba County Fair, the state's giant house party, where politicians speechify and families reunite on porches that have stayed in the same name for generations. The rest of the year, this Neshoba County seat runs at a slower pace: a courthouse square ringed by the century-old Williams Brothers General Store and downtown storefronts, residential streets off Byrd Avenue, and Highway 16 running west toward the Choctaw reservation and Pearl River Resort. Flower deliveries here follow that geography — to Neshoba County General Hospital on Holland Avenue, to homes near the square, to the Silver Star and Golden Moon hotels out at the resort, and, come July, to the fair cabins where the whole county gathers.

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