To what could James Coleman attribute his life of 72 years? The answer: a white bean. That’s an unusual answer, but even more so is the...
On July 3, 1974, I was 12 years old. I was in the front yard of our First East Street home throwing a football with my...
“Where they rock all night and go to the light of day …” The clear tenor voice sang in a smooth and easy style as the...
He came into Vicksburg wearing a white vest, maroon velvet frock coat, gray bell-bottomed, tight-fitting trousers, and a cravat tied with blue in a loose bow...
Editor’s note: Gordon Cotton wrote fondly about the “affects several women other than my mother, aunt and grandmother have had on my life … in no...
Its codename was Operation Overlord. It involved 156,000 American, British and Canadian soldiers on more than 50 miles of heavily fortified beaches. It took a level...
On June 5, 1966, James Meredith of Kosciusko, Mississippi, began his historic March Against Fear. Meredith, who was the first African American to enroll at the...
My grandfather was a steamboat engineer who spent most of his working life on U.S. Army Corps of Engineer vessels. But he had a fondness for...
Wearing green on March 17 doesn’t make you Irish, but Vicksburg does have a close connection with the Emerald Isle. There’s even a special place in...
“I’ve seen that bed before,” the old man said. “Oh, you haven’t,” his wife of many years said. “You’re just imagining things.” He was insistent, however,...
