Stories Related to National Sweetheart Pageant Soldiers On With 28 Contestants

Organizers had to completely reinvent one of the highlights of Hoopeston's National Sweetcorn Festival after Miss America Organization officials told contestants they were severing ties with the event. HOOPESTON — Miss America 1997's mouth still waters any time she thinks about Hoopeston's sweet corn — "the best I had ever eaten, and I ate my fair share" as a kid in Kansas. Miss America 1982 remembers how much Cornjerker Country reminded her of her own small southern hometown — Ozark, Ark., where she got her beauty-pageant start. read more

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