“I’m thinking of running for the office of tax collector,” the voice on the phone said. “What do you think about this?” The caller was Marguerite...
Dressed in riding jodhpurs, a frock coat and fashionable boots and hat — and with a $10,000 diamond ring covering half of his finger — Tom...
As shots rang out just above the trees, the boys who were perched among the branches “came out of those trees like overripe pears falling,” wrote...
The monument is much like any other. It is white marble with a rounded top, standing several feet high and on a broad base. Attached to...
In Mississippi history, the name Mary Dawson Cain will be remembered as the first woman in the state to run for the office of governor. To...
He was a familiar figure on Vicksburg streets in the 1970s and 1980s, perhaps before and beyond those times, and folks called the street preacher “Rev,”...
He looked more like a Southern planter, in his pin-striped suit and broad-brimmed felt hat, than an emperor, but when Dom Pedro II of Brazil arrived...
Robert Gilmore “R.G.” LeTourneau, founder of the LeTourneau Corporation, was a prolific inventor. At one time, as many as 2,000 people were employed at the company’s...
Cannon fire broke the quiet of the night as shells passed over the bow of the steamboat. It wasn’t Charleston harbor and Fort Sumter in April...
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...
