Peggy Schaeffer has always had a love for her family, history, old homes and Christmas. So when she moved to Vicksburg from Huntsville, Texas, in 1987,...
Most everyone called him Doc, but he was George Ferdinand Smith and was the 22nd veterinarian in the state of Mississippi. His stories were legend, and...
The scene was reminiscent of one that would have appeared in “Gone with the Wind.” Union soldiers invaded a home, had words with the owner, speaking...
It was Friday afternoon and a typical winter day in Vicksburg in 1869. Federal troops, garrisoned in the city to “reconstruct” it, policed the muddy streets....
There’s a small white stone in the Dockery family graveyard at Lamartine in Columbia County, Arkansas, with the simple inscription “Truce” on it, and therein lies...
Verse by great poets has been written in honor of a louse — and possibly other critters — but it was a Vicksburg attorney who delivered...
One of the old Vicksburg trollies made its way up Washington Street Thursday on its way to its temporary home in the Blackburn building. It was...
Friday, Oct. 16, was or is (depending on when you read this) National Boss’s Day, and it caused me to reflect on some bosses I’ve had...
She told a tragic tale: Her name was Marie, and her husband had been a Union soldier who moved to Vicksburg and married her after the...
WQBC radio was believed to be the oldest radio station in the state of Mississippi. Operating on AM frequency 1420, the call letters were reportedly for...
