There’s a 100-year-old newspaper on the wall outside my office at the Delta Democrat-Times. It’s lead headline is probably the greatest foreshadowing headline ever written in the history of newspapers.
On Nov. 11, 1918, the lead headline reads simply, “World War Won.”
For once I wish everyone actually did have their iPhones out and creating videos last week during Washington School’s graduation after-gathering.
Each morning and night last week about 50 of us sat in an old church in the hills around Oxford at Camp Hopewell.
The church was built in 1866, a year or so after the first church on the site had burned.
It’s been a few weeks now since we published a story on the city’s switch away from Clear Water Solutions to Manchac Consulting Group, Inc. to provide similar services.
I heard of the change from various sources around town and was truly impressed by the ability of the Manchac Consulting Group to pull off the move they made.
In his role as Mississippi Secretary of State, Delbert Hosemann has been about the business of the State of Mississippi.
He’s made it easier for businesses to incorporate as limited liability corporations, there are now some 22,000 new LLCs per year formed in the state.
There was one other car in the parking lot on the newly completed side of the Delta Sportsplex on Sunday evening.
My wife and I took our two youngest children to shoot a model rocket there in the waning light so we could better see the fire from the rocket motor.
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.
