Possumhaw: Nature abounds
Oh what a beautiful day it was. The temperature was quite cool, but the sun was shining. Sam was trying to get in a day of fishing between our guests arriving and leaving. This year our company came in shifts so everyone could see and spend time with family and friends they had not seen in awhile, some for two years or more.
Partial to Home: Walter and Vincent
Just as the ghost of William Faulkner looms large over Oxford, so does that of Walter Anderson here. And, as Faulkner’s legacy has been embraced and, to a degree monetized, by his hometown, such is the case with Anderson.
Ask Rufus: Is It Eggnog or Milk Punch?
Thanksgiving has now passed, and Christmas is fast approaching, which raises that perennial holiday beverage controversy: What is the favored Christmas Holiday’s libation, eggnog or milk punch?
Slimantics: I used to be a big Fox News viewer
I used to be a big Fox News viewer back in the late 90s when I was a conservative Republican who had never voted for a Democrat.
Sid Salter: Bill Spell was at the center of Mississippi’s most sordid, bizarre political campaign
William E. “Bill” Spell, who died Oct. 12 at age 96, was the last major figure in what most Mississippians recall as the most sordid and bizarre political campaign in the state’s history back in 1983.
Possumhaw: Up side down side
Seems like everything we do these days is like from one end to the other with no in between. It’s like Simon says: stop, then go, then stop, okay you can go again; no stop. Some establishments you enter and everyone wears a mask.
Jabe Nicholson: Thanksgiving or Thanksliving?
My maternal grandfather was my hero. Surviving the Great Depression, two World Wars, the death of two grandchildren, his own near-death at the hands of an inebriated surgeon, and scores of other tragedies, he somehow always came through with his grateful heart intact.
Partial to Home: Under the full beaver moon
It’s a funny thing, one day you’re reading an email on your laptop about an outing on the Mississippi River to view the full beaver moon, and four days later you’re standing around a campfire with a group of people, half of whom you didn’t know two hours earlier, on an island in that river watching that moon ascend into the evening sky.
Sid Salter: Ray Mosby: God will enjoy listening to and arguing with authentic Delta journalist
Harold Ray Mosby Jr.’s legendary editorial voice was at once powerful, poignant, prophetic and provocative. To the end of his days, which came last week in a Jackson hospital at the age 70, that reliable and important voice never failed him.
Evie Vidrine: Opportunities abound to get involved
It has been almost five years and six months to the day since I first moved to Columbus. I had never considered myself a “small town girl”. I was “big city,” and thoroughly believed my stay here would not be longer than three years. I actively avoided town involvement for the first year.
Possumhaw: Of earth and sky
Because the dark of night came earlier last week, I was walking in the darkness across the lawn to feed Hatcher, the rabbit, and to close the gate to the perennial garden to prevent any critters attempting to feed on my goldfish.
Partial to Home: A quiet evening on a placid lake
My most enduring memory of Lake Lowndes is a camping trip there during my brief tenure as a Boy Scout. It must have been before weather forecasting was commonly available. Maybe someone mistakenly assumed we were prepared.
Ask Rufus: Hitler’s silver, a soldier’s souvenir
Three weeks ago, I was at a luncheon at the Aliceville Museum. Linda Anderson and her sister Bonnie Anderson Hariton had come from California to present to the museum a collection of silverware their father had sent home at the end of World War II.
Slimantics: In a town this size, Mosby was a giant
Ray Mosby, who until Tuesday was editor and publisher of The Deer Creek Pilot in the little Delta town of Rolling Fork, often began his columns with a verse of poetry, song lyrics or a familiar quotation.
Sid Salter: Soaring gas prices illustrate why GOP expect gains in the 2022 midterm elections
Over the last 30 years, the highest U.S. gas prices were recorded at $4.114 per gallon by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) in 2008 as the nation struggled in the Great Recession. Thankfully, we’re not back to that level — yet.
Possumhaw: Declutter and donate
The temperatures pulled a fast one on us, and suddenly it turned cold. By the last week of October, we were already having mornings in the thirty and forty degree range. I had anticipated wearing summer dresses with cardigans and leggings for fall when more like winter showed up.
Bobby Harrison: Mississippi Democrats must ask ‘why not us’ after Virginia, New Jersey results
Mississippi Democrats must be asking themselves why they cannot do what Republicans did in Virginia and almost did in New Jersey this past week.
Partial to Home: Greens and cornbread
Each time I’ve talked on the phone with my friend HD these past few weeks, he’s made an offer in the form of a warning.
Wyatt Emmerich: Congress created the Facebook monster
Facebook is back in the headlines and the news is not favorable.
Ask Rufus: Ancestors of the Thanksgiving turkey
Last week I was talking about Columbus history with Mayor Keith Gaskin, and he mentioned that on November 18 there would be the pardoning of a Thanksgiving Turkey in Columbus. That made me think about early Columbus and the turkey lore I have heard or read. That lore has roots in Alabama and Mississippi which go back for centuries, extending even into prehistoric times.
