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...
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...
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...
