The Tomato Place | Mississippi Roads | MPB
The Tomato Place just south of Highway 61 is part restaurant, part store, and part tourist destination. It has something for everyone - whether that something is hats, marmalade, smoothies, or their best-selling BLT. What began as a roadside fruit stand quickly took off into the now flavorful eatery with a selection of fresh, local produce and a savory menu.
Vicksburg, Mississippi At a Glance
Get the basics on Vicksburg, Mississippi in this video narrated with area facts.
Natchez Trace Parkway from Vicksburg to Port Gibson, Mississippi
This video shows some of the attractions on and near the Natchez Trace from Vicksburg, Mississippi (milepost 66) to Port Gibson, Mississippi (milepost 30). Pictured are Sunken Trace, Mangum Mound, Owens Creek Waterfall, Rocky Springs, Lower Choctaw Boundary, Windsor Ruins, Grand Gulf Military Park and Vicksburg National Military Park and the town of Port Gibson, Mississippi.
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BEST WESTERN VICKSBURG
2445 N Frontage Road
Vicksburg, MS, US, 39180-5177
Phone: 601/636-5800 Fax: 601-636-1102
The Country Store - Lorman MS
FULL EPISODE: The Cairo Museum | Mississippi Roads | MPB
Mississippi Roads visits the Cairo Museum in Vicksburg and tours the reconstructed Ironclad city-class gunboat. We see how one city celebrates the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the war that divided the nation. A man outside of Natchez finds pleasure and notoriety making an old kind of firearm. A farm near Lumberton brings fresh dairy products to nearby markets, and Mississippi proves to be a perfect training ground for a special kind of horse race.
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Idlewild Historic Home - Port Gibson MS
Landrum's Homestead | Mississippi Roads | MPB
Mississippi Roads checks out Landrum's Homestead, Artist Ginger Williams, and learns how some folks make cane syrup. Plus we stop by Pascagoula for a long-time fan-favorite restaurant.
Hungry, Anyone? | Mississippi Roads | MPB
Weidmann’s in Meridian, Peggy’s in Philadelphia, tailgating, BTC Grocery in Water Valley
Downtown Jackson provides a backdrop for Mississippi’s diverse culinary offerings, and in this episode we’ll sample some of the state’s most beloved restaurants: classics and newcomers alike.
Weidmann’s in Meridian is still going strong after almost 150 years, providing a community anchor for generations of diners. There’s nothing like good old home cooking at places like Peggy’s in Philadelphia. Traditional tailgating fare provides energy for some cheering on the Bulldogs at Mississippi State. And newcomers to Water Valley are impressing locals and national visitors alike at the BTC Grocery.
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LIVE 2018 Mississippi Spelling Bee | MPB
Watch the Mississippi Spelling Bee LIVE from the Rose E. McCoy Auditorium at Jackson State University, March 13, 2018 at 10 A.M.
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Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital
In their book, Chocolate City, professors Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove tell the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Washington has often served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, and the drug war. But, the city is also rich in history of local activism as the citizens struggle to make their voices heard in an undemocratic city where residents lack full political rights. A book signing follows the program.
THRESHOLD OF HOPE - 10-06-2015
Making Old Things New | Mississippi Roads | MPB
Hosted from Bruce Campbell Field, Madison MS
Felder Rushing’s famous Garden-Truck was uprooted and trashed but Holmes Community College helped him bring it back to life. We browse Norris Bookbinding in Greenville, the largest book restoration and Bible repair service in the nation. We take flight with the the Mississippi Wing of the Commemorative Air Force; an all-volunteer organization dedicated to Honoring American Military Aviation.
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FULL EPISODE: The Sam B Olden Museum | Mississippi Roads | MPB
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Transportation Innovation | Mississippi Roads | MPB
Walt takes a look at technology this week, from drone aviation at Hinds Community College and Mississippi State, to Mississippi farmers growing crops hydroponically without using soil, to the wildly successful solar car team from Houston (Miss.) High School, which competes internationally with solar cars from top research universities.
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African American Experience in Missouri Lecture Series - Bryan Jack
The sixth African-American Experience Lecture, Crossing the Red Sea: Saint Louis and the Exodus of 1879, presented by Bryan Jack on November 9, 2016.
Dr. Bryan Jack earned an MA degree in American studies from the University of Alabama and a Ph.D. in American studies from St. Louis University. He's an associate professor of Historical Studies at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Dr. Jack teaches courses in African-American history and United States history, St. Louis history, and the history of the American south. He is the author of “The Saint Louis African American Community and the Exodusters,” which was published by the University of Missouri press in 2007. Dr. Jack’s talk discusses material from his book, which examines the thousands of African Americans who fled the post-Reconstruction south in search of political, economic, and social opportunity in the west.
The African American Lecture series explores the history of black Americans in Missouri from the earliest period of statehood to the present.
This lecture series offers the Mizzou and Columbia community opportunities to gain a new understanding of present-day Missouri by learning about the history of African Americans within the state. This series is a collaboration between the Division of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity, and the State Historical Society of Missouri's Center for Missouri Studies.
The Long Way Home / Heaven Is in the Sky / I Have Three Heads / Epitaph's Spoon River Anthology
Spoon River Anthology (1915), by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short free-form poems that collectively describe the life of the fictional small town of Spoon River, named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters' home town. The collection includes two hundred and twelve separate characters, all providing two-hundred forty-four accounts of their lives and losses. The poems were originally published in the magazine Reedy's Mirror.
Each following poem is an epitaph of a dead citizen, delivered by the dead themselves. They speak about the sorts of things one might expect: some recite their histories and turning points, others make observations of life from the outside, and petty ones complain of the treatment of their graves, while few tell how they really died. Speaking without reason to lie or fear the consequences, they construct a picture of life in their town that is shorn of façades. The interplay of various villagers — e.g. a bright and successful man crediting his parents for all he's accomplished, and an old woman weeping because he is secretly her illegitimate child — forms a gripping, if not pretty, whole.
The subject of afterlife receives only the occasional brief mention, and even those seem to be contradictory.
The work features such characters as Tom Merritt, Amos Sibley, Carl Hamblin, Fiddler Jones and A.D. Blood. Many of the characters that make appearances in Spoon River Anthology were based on real people that Masters knew or heard of in the two towns in which he grew up, Petersburg and Lewistown, Illinois. Most notable is Ann Rutledge, regarded in local legend to be Abraham Lincoln's early love interest though there is no actual proof of such a relationship. Rutledge's grave can still be found in a Petersburg cemetery, and a tour of graveyards in both towns reveals most of the surnames that Masters applied to his characters.
Other local legends assert that Masters' fictional portrayal of local residents, often in unflattering light, created a lot of embarrassment and aggravation in his hometown. This is offered as an explanation for why he chose not to settle down in Lewistown or Petersburg.
Spoon River Anthology is often used in second year characterization work in the Meisner technique of actor training.