As Vicksburg Daily News mourns the passing of the late Gordon Cotton, we cannot help but smile and remember his humor and love for writing. He...
“It’s a small world” is an oft-used term to describe an unusual happening. I want to share some small world stories, events that happened to me,...
When I used to take trips, usually to Virginia, Georgia or the Carolinas, I was looking for dead relatives, for genealogy has always fascinated me. On...
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...
