Southern Experience

Heaton: 10 Essential Tips for Moving to the South

Embrace Southern hospitality with these essential tips on traditions, food, and customs to help you settle into your new home.

Thacker Mountain Radio Hour to Perform at Ford Center Thursday

Thacker Mountain Radio Hour performs at the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts Thursday, Feb. 8, at 6 p.m. The one-hour show is...

Bonnie Brown: When DIY Goes Awry, Try Again

I'm not the original Do-It-Yourselfer, but I did have an early start. I was probably 5 or 6 years old when I cut my...

Reflections: I Sat Around a Campfire with William Faulkner

I don't want to mislead anybody. I was not a close acquaintance of the great Faulkner and not many people were. In fact, I'm...

Miss Hospitality Reads "Meet My Mississippi" Poem to Legislators

https://www.facebook.com/100003263212448/videos/1595234383928653/ As a guest of Sen. Bob M. Dearing in the Mississippi State Senate Friday morning, Emma Grace McGrew, Mississippi's Miss Hospitality, shared a poem...

Reflections: A Few Words About My Dad, Mose Allison

I often get the question, what was Mose like at home? My answer to that is, the man you see performing and the man...

A Delta Tradition: 58th Annual Lebanese Dinner to be Held Feb. 5 in Vicksburg

Editor's Note: Click here to find 4 recipes for some of the these amazing Lebanese dishes or to order a cookbook published by The...

4 Amazing Recipes from the Upcoming Lebanese Dinner in Vicksburg

In honor of the upcoming 58th Annual Lebanese Dinner at Vicksburg's St. George Orthodox Church, Ellis Nassour shared these recipes from the cookbook, "The...

Cofield: A (Very) Brief History of a Town Called Taylor

The community many of us know as Taylor began under a slightly different name, according to resident Jim Hamilton and Oxford's John Cofield. Hamilton writes: "John Taylor...

A Taste of the Grand Ole Opry Comes to New York's Times Square

“Come on in and sit right down and make yourself at home!” sang the legendary Patsy Cline. It was the tune that opened her...

Tim Heaton: 15 Sure Signs You Went to High School in the South

Personally, I would decline a do-over for high school. It was tough: The confusion of emerging adulthood and all those tragedies that only a...