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Driving south from Marks down the first highway in the Delta formally named in honor of a musician (The Charley Pride highway. What, you were thinking B.B. King or Muddy Waters?), I decided to stop off in downtown Lambert to see the Blues Trail marker for Sunnyland Slim. Across the street from the marker, [...]  The World’s Largest Crappie Festival is May 5th. The world’s largest crappie weighed 5 pounds 3 ounces, and the record has held for going on 55 years. Thomas Hines grew up in Oxford; his mother was a long-time elementary school teacher here and his father a professor on campus. Thomas Hineshas published books about modern architecture, and is a “notable professor emeritus of history and architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles.” He obviously spent decades coming back to [...] Mississippi native Ben Mims begins an article about layer cakes in Saveur magazine by describing his relationship with his mother: Prior to October 7, 2010, my mother and I were the best of friends. A consummate Southern lady, Judy Mims is a fantastic cook, gossiper, and mom—and in her relationship with me she [...] The Mississippi Historic Preservation site’s list of 106 Mississippi places you should see was an interesting opportunity to focus on travels through the state. Recently, I was in Natchez, and wanted to take our friend Larry Wells to parts of Claiborne and Jefferson Counties that were my family’s old stomping grounds. This gave me [...] He’s putting photos of Mardi Gras Indians out this morning on his twitter feed. Here’s a couple. The second is Spy boy Charlie Tenner of the 9th Ward Comanche Hunters
According to Eunice Today, they’ve decided to set a limit on the amount of beer when you buy a ticket to the Mardi Gras run this morning: Last year, approximately 7,000 pounds of boudin, 400 pounds of gumbo and 500 cases of beer were consumed. To control rising costs, Frey said the amount [...] He was the second black student to graduate from Ole Miss in the 60s. He got his start as a student in the Jackson Movement led by Medgar Evers. Jerry Mitchell reports: “Cleve was one of the student leaders,” [Leslie] McLemore said. “The movement gave Cleve the foundation for what he did later in [...] There’s a dogtrot house in Union County just East of the Enterprise community (where the West Union School is on Highway 30, for those who have driven from New Albany to Oxford) that I’ve admired for decades. In the past, it could be hard to spot because of some woods near it, but there’s [...] I always (since I was a small child) knew that the interior of the First Presbyterian Church in Port Gibson was special and beautiful (and always seemed peaceful in a way a church should be). I had no idea about the Catholic Church just up the street (and around the corner from my [...] |
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