My role in the Delta Center Stage Production of Mamma Mia! is tiny. I’m on stage for less than five minutes, but it’s a critical role.
Letter to Santa come in three varieties.
There are funny letters.
There are sad letters.
There are grocery-list letters.
The funny letters can be filled with misspellings or include inappropriate requests.
The history of a town is best told by the people who lived it.
Those people of a certain age who have lived their entire lives in Greenville have witnessed a town go through as great a change as any place in America.
They have seen the boom years of the tow boat industry and the decline following the grain embargo.
In the past week, Duck hunters in the Mississippi Delta got a bit of a gift: five extra days of duck season.
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith pushed a bill through as a rider on a comprehensive lands bill which would allow states the ability to extend Duck season until Jan. 31.
The hunting hasn’t been great for waterfowlers in the last few years.
When I first moved to the Delta six hunting seasons ago, the birds were plentiful.
We would rise early, head to Tribbett and be done shooting in a half hour or so.
The cold wet mornings of winter have replaced the three days of fall colors and mild weather we had here in the Delta.
With that change has come the worst part of winter.
Since I no longer, thankfully, live north of the Mason-Dixon line, I don’t have to worry about shoveling snow, so that’s no longer the worst part of winter.
The little deer was standing about 215 yards away when I saw it.
The weather was not conducive to deer hunting, it was warm and wet, and there was a good chance this was the only deer we’d see that day.
While there were many fireworks being set alight, there were also several repeating arms being fired into the air randomly by revelers on New Year’s Eve in Greenville.
