When Iowa canceled its State Fair a month ago, we figured the worst. The State Fair of Texas was shaky.
Texans are serious about their state fair, but so are our friends in Iowa. The Iowa State Fair is 165 years old, annually ranks among the best in the nation and was the reason Meryl Streep hooked up with Clint Eastwood in “The Bridges of Madison County.”
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, North Dakota. All had canceled their state fairs, but Iowa was holding on. Until it wasn’t.
Oklahoma followed suit soon after, and now Texas has done the same, with the announcement Tuesday that Big Tex’s big party is off for 2020.