William Jeanes
In what cynics might term an effort to torpedo our marriage, my wife and I have taken up sailing on cruise ships.
Writing of ships, the English essayist and wordsmith, Samuel Johnson, said, “…being in a ship is being in a...
If you were born in Mississippi but left it for somewhere else, and if you heard that a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey elephant named Carol had been the victim of a drive-by shooting in Tupelo, would you ever move back to your native...
Ninety years ago last month, President Theodore Roosevelt went on a Mississippi bear hunt in Issaquena County. The hunt fared badly and by sundown on the second day had produced only an old wounded bear tethered to a tree and savaged by the...
On some mornings my Clarion-Ledger makes me wish I lived in a country where I didn’t speak the language. Last Saturday, for example, I learned that the First Baptist Church of Crystal Springs, responding to a handful of its members...
The Smithsonian Channel’s engrossing Aerial America series recently aired its episode on Mississippi. It’s not a perfect or complete look at Mississippi, but it’s clear-eyed enough and worth an hour of your time.
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