Sunday, March 21, 2010

Race Relations

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Before I moved back to Mississippi from Los Angeles, visits home were exhausting. It was impossible to se...
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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Natchez Pilgrimage, 1939

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  For the past couple of weeks, a little-known short film about the Natchez Pilgrimage has gone viral among present and former Natc...
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Monday, February 22, 2010

Matters Familias ~~ Howard Pritchartt ~~ Adventures in World War II

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* Photo by Hannah Reel for The Natchez Democrat.  Republished with permission. With an article coming up in The Natchez Democrat as ...
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Looking for Blossom

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This is one of Natchez's more recent characters. He's been walking around town for the last few years, going into people's ya...
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

New Orleans Halloween

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Shantybellum found itself with a beautiful room way up high on the 7th floor of the Royal Sonesta Hotel in the New Orleans French Quarter fo...
Sunday, October 25, 2009

Ferriday Songfest Brings Out the Talent in Everyone

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It felt like the day after Christmas this morning as attendees and hit songwriters dragged their bags and guitar cases through the lobby and...
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Friday, October 23, 2009

Second annual Ferriday Songfest Songwriters' Workshop

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Shantybellum is excited. Tomorrow morning at 9 a.m., five hit songwriters will converge at the Arcade Theater in Ferriday, Louisiana, to im...
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Friday, October 9, 2009

Ghost Stories

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When I was a little girl, one of my very bestest friends in the whole world was Alma Carpenter, who lived in a huge, beautiful old house i...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

The Wait -- A Short Story

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They waited out the morning in a sad little coffee shop just off the interstate, one of those places 200 miles from nowhere that claimed it ...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Battle of the Belles

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Our friend Gary alerted us to a delicious article reposted in Time magazine about the acrimony between the Garden Clubs here in Natchez in ...
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Saturday, September 5, 2009

Mississippi Blues Trail -- Papa Lightfoot

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*Caption: Founder of the Natchez Bluff Blues Festival and Natchez Blues Heritage Association Eric Glatzer and Director of Cultural Heritage...
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Natchez Characters - Tommy Polk 2009 Kisatchi-Delta Regional Grassroots Citizen of the Year

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Kisatchie-Delta Regional Executive Director Heather Smoak Urena presenting 2009 Regional Grassroots Citizen award to Tommy Polk Natc...
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Monday, August 3, 2009

Matters Familia - Hidden Treasures

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My great aunt Annet could render some beautiful scenes in pen and ink. In the entire time I knew her, though, I'd never seen he...
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Saturday, August 1, 2009

Natchez Characters - Phil and Jimmi Lou Vasser

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Our friend Courtney Taylor has a new article in Country Roads Magazine this month about two of our favorite Natchez characters -- Phil and ...
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