It’s the tidbits of history that have always intrigued me, the little known instances that didn’t change the overall story and that are usually left out...
The recent death of Charley Pride was cause for reflection and reminiscences of the time I interviewed the famous country music star. In May 1971, Pride...
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...
“I’m going to wait here in the car. The Gypsy graves are at the top of the hill, on the left,” Mrs. Elsie McWilliams told me...
It is doubtful that many people have ever heard of John Leland, but Americans owe him a heartfelt thanks. Leland deserves more than a footnote in...
He was born in Virginia, grew up in Kentucky, and lived in many parts of the country, but when Zachary Taylor was elected president of the...
