Saturday, June 27, 2009

The Phantom of Kingston Road

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The first time I noticed him it was the holidays – I can’t remember if it was Thanksgiving or Christmas. I was driving home on Kingston Road...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

The Guitar by By Verlon Thompson, a friend of Tommy's

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Sunday, June 14, 2009

PUPPIES!!!!!

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I'm happy to announce that all the puppies have found homes. I'm keeping the mama dog, whom I've named Madonna. She's the ...
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Monday, June 8, 2009

Side Trips on the Blues Highway - Beauty & Redemption in the Belly of the Beast

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Angola Prison has always fascinated me. Trips to Baton Rouge or New Orleans always took me past the sign on Highway 61 just north of St. Fr...
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Monday, June 1, 2009

Found Items

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71st Annual Commencement Program Natchez Institute, 1916 Double click on the photo to view closeup
Sunday, May 31, 2009

Matters Familia - Ephemera

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As some of you may already know, I have a little online bookstore. I'm forever venturing out to libraries, Goodwill and Salvation Army ...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Matters Familia - Photos of Annet Munger Pritchartt

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Click on photos to enlarge.
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...