The 30 Miss Tennessee candidates will take the stage Thursday for the first night of competition at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts. But before the competition heats up and a winner is crowned Saturday, the women have had a chance to get out and experience Memphis.
Since their arrival in the Bluff City, the contestants have visited Graceland and Beale Street and are scheduled to watch the Duck Walk at The Peabody.
And on Monday, it was all about Midtown Memphis. Thirty silver tiaras glistened under the sun as the contestants made their way around the area. The first stop on their tour: Playhouse on the Square.
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These title-holders will join such easier-to-place competitors as Miss Nashville, Miss Kingsport and Miss Bluff City Fair as 30 young women from across the Volunteer State gather in Memphis at the end of this month for the 82nd edition of what is now officially known as the Miss Tennessee Scholarship Competition. They ve been very careful to brand this as a competition because pageant has a lot of stereotypes, said Miss Tennessee executive director Colene Trent, 36, a five-time Miss Alabama contender and Union University associate professor who has a Ph.D in economics to go along with her beauty queen titles.
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