Tuesday, September 1, 2015

A New Lease on Life for our Strays in Natchez/Adams County, MS

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Saturday, August 29, 2015

Annet's House

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Found another photo of my great aunt's house on the bluff overlooking the river in Natchez, Mississippi. They had to work to keep that a...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

The Showboat's Comin'! - 1951

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I've had this picture a few days and have been trying to get information on who's in it and where they were going.  I found out yest...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Chicago Negro Tells of Her Experiences

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Civil Rights March Alabama 1965 While going through old family papers, I came upon this little bizarre piece of history .  It appeared...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

New Municipal Building of Natchez, Mississippi 1903 - 1924

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I've been going through boxes of family photos and documents, and came across this little gem, which is known today as Natchez City Hal...
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Saturday, August 15, 2015

Natchez Rifles Group

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Natchez Rifles Group John Davis, Kirby Grafton, P.D. Whitney, (illegible) Sponsors Miss Bessie Rose (Mrs. C.V. Patterson) Maids of Ho...
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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...