Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Matters Familia - Photos of Annet Munger Pritchartt

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Monday, May 25, 2009

Matters Familia - The Fabric of Time

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As I mentioned in my previous post, I've been going through the house my great grandfather built in 1900 on the bluff overlooking the Mi...
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Saturday, May 23, 2009

So Rose the Dead

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I'm cleaning out things that should've been cleaned years ago at my great aunt's house on the bluff. In my cleaning adventures ...
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Green Sky at Morning

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I love Sunday mornings. There's no place I have to be, nothing pressing that has to be accomplished. So this past Sunday morning, I wa...
Monday, May 4, 2009

A Shanty. And a Delta Blues Epiphany

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As promised, Tommy, Courtney and I returned from our road trip through the Delta and now we're ready to share what we did and saw. We h...

Cherry Grove

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All around the old place, the dead visit.  The day he opened up the trunk of that sweetgum tree, and before we saw the horseshoe hanging...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

mmmhellooo?

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Lots of strange goings on in our little corner of the universe lately. Friday morning I was leaving my dad's house around 10:30 a.m. D...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Picture This

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In addition to being all-around brilliant and humble, Elodie works at Echoes Gallery in downtown Natchez. Echoes offers a variety of beauti...
Sunday, April 12, 2009

A Surry with the Fringe on Top

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What's cuter than a group of drunk, middle-aged women in obnoxious Easter Bonnets? Nothing! The day before Easter found some of the mo...
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Happy Easter, Everyone

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photo by Elodie Pritchartt
Thursday, April 9, 2009

What a cold front looks like

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One morning a couple of weeks ago, I was sitting on the porch at Shantybellum, enjoying the warm, balmy weather, when I looked across the ri...
Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Matters Familia - Dying People Don't Eat Duck

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J. Balfour Miller What is it with my family? From as early as I can remember, my grandmother was a dying woman. I’d call her on th...
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On the Road

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Tommy and Elodie will be taking a road trip with Courtney Stacy-Taylor on Thursday to do a story about touring the Blues Highway 61. Y'...
Saturday, April 4, 2009

Cool Cats at the Shanty Shack

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Shantybellum has been adopted by two feral kitties, who aren't so feral since Elodie, the cat whisperer, worked her magic on them. We s...
Wednesday, April 1, 2009

200 Years of Liberty

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His small face illumined by the flames, four-year-old Robert Stratton watched, awestruck, as fire consumed the family home dark night in 194...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Stormy Weather

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Way back in 1840 Natchez experienced some of the scariest weather possible -- an F5 tornado that stretched all the way across the river and ...

The Garter, the Sword and the Veil

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The Garter “Guard this with your life,” said Stella Jenkins Carby as she handed over a sc...
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Thursday, March 5, 2009

What's with those Tableaux, anyway?

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After having lived in Los Angeles for 25 years, it was through a different lens that I watched the Historic Natchez Pageant on a visit hom...
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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Matters familias - Natchez Characters

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Utter the name "Katherine Miller" in Natchez, and the reactions you get vary wildly. She's either the patron saint of Natche...
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