Monday, July 27, 2015

Long Gone

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In the pictures we seldom smiled. Stubborn children forced to pause and pose before the hearth in the cabin in the woods in the childh...
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Saturday, June 6, 2015

Dream a Little Dream of Me

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Civil War Journal of my great, great grandfather, Henry Elias Munger Last night I dreamt I was out at Daddy's. He and I had gone thr...
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Sunday, May 17, 2015

Book Signing at Turning Pages in Natchez, MS

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On Monday, May 18, Turning Pages Bookstore is hosting a book signing by author Gayle Harper, whose book, Roadtrip with a Raindrop , is cu...
Saturday, April 4, 2015

Natchez in the Limelight

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Amazon Studios and Sony Pictures is working on a television series based on Natchez's own Greg Iles's, novel, Natchez Burning with...
Monday, March 2, 2015

Let's Have a Ball while We Save the Hall!

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Greetings! Who is the Pilgrimage Historical Association – PHA? In 1970, a small group of concerned and farsighted ladies founded...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

Roadtrip with a Raindrop

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Fabulous trailer for the new book by Gayle Harper, who documents a raindrop's 90-day journey down the Mississippi from its headwaters...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

Looking for Love on Valentine's Day

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This little girl is looking for a forever home.  She was found Valentine's Day morning on Cemetery Road, covered in ticks and ...
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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Laska by Frank Desprez

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Anyone who reads this blog knows I like poetry.   Here's an achingly beautiful recitation by cowboy poet Joel Nelson of  Frank Desp...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Matters Familia - Ephemera

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I used to have a little online bookstore. I loved venturing out to libraries, Goodwill and Salvation Army stores looking for books to s...
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Monday, December 1, 2014

The Tractor

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Photos by Randy Laird.  Used with permission. It stood motionless, the Deere at the edge of the woods, as though waiting f...
Saturday, November 15, 2014

The Journey

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I spent the day enfolded in the car, searching for reasons not to go back to the house, yearning for something I couldn't name....
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Poverty Point - Seeing History in a Whole New Way

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The monumental earthworks at Poverty Point were built by laborers who carried 300,000 cubic yards of dirt in fifty-pound baskets. The site...