Saturday, May 19 2012 12:44 AM EDT2012-05-19 04:44:45 GMT
Saturday might be your day to sleep in. But not if it's the day you are in a Crappie Master's Fishing Tournament. Qualifying fish can be caught anywhere between 6am and 3pm this day. So you want to alreadyMore >>
Saturday might be your day to sleep in. But not if it's the day you are in a Crappie Master's Fishing Tournament. Qualifying fish can be caught anywhere between 6am and 3pm this day.More >>
Tuesday, May 15 2012 8:12 PM EDT2012-05-16 00:12:06 GMT
For 20 to 25 years, century plants don't do much of anything except grow bigger around and somewhat higher. But then, all of a sudden they do this. Put out a chute that goes straight up in the air. ItMore >>
For 20 to 25 years, century plants don't do much of anything except grow bigger around and somewhat higher. But then, all of a sudden they do this. Put out a chute that goes straight up in the air. It doesn't grow this thing over night like Jack's beanstalk.More >>
Saturday, May 12 2012 1:04 AM EDT2012-05-12 05:04:11 GMT
This story's prompted by an email I got the other day from someone explaining that the price of gasoline has gotten so high that they want to explore closer to home during their free time this summer. Well,More >>
This story's prompted by an email I got the other day from someone explaining that the price of gasoline has gotten so high that they want to explore closer to home during their free time this summer. More >>
Tuesday, May 8 2012 9:59 PM EDT2012-05-09 01:59:51 GMT
The sign above the door at Sciple's Mill says it has been in business since 1790. Now if that's the case, then it's 30 years older that the Woodville Republican Newspaper, which has been considered theMore >>
The sign above the door at Sciple's Mill says it has been in business since 1790. Now if that's the case, then it's 30 years older that the Woodville Republican Newspaper, which has been considered the state's oldest continuously operated business. But whichever, Sciple's Mill sits silent right now.More >>
Monday, May 7 2012 5:06 PM EDT2012-05-07 21:06:46 GMT
April 28, 2012 we had the largest full moon of the year. Some may or may not be able to see the difference. This is about the best shot I could get of the big moon last Saturday. Miz Jo held a masonMore >>
April 28, 2012 we had the largest full moon of the year. Some may or may not be able to see the difference. This is about the best shot I could get of the big moon last Saturday. Miz Jo held a masonMore >>
Saturday, May 5 2012 12:34 AM EDT2012-05-05 04:34:52 GMT
It's a typical school day at College Drive SDA school in Pearl where 6-year-old Samuel Green attends. He is a good student and attentive in his class that spans kindergarten through 2nd Grade. Ms. Huddleston,More >>
An introduction to the youngest preacher, I've ever met. More >>
Tuesday, May 1 2012 9:10 PM EDT2012-05-02 01:10:29 GMT
The membership of the society has shifted to the 2nd generation and 3rd generation as sons and grandsons and spouses join in. Harry Tanner brought part of his memorabilia collection up from Zachary,More >>
The membership of the society has shifted to the 2nd generation and 3rd generation as sons and grandsons and spouses join in. Harry Tanner brought part of his memorabilia collection up from Zachary, Louisiana to Lake Tiak-O'Kata at Louisville where the annual meetings are usually held for the former pilots and radiomen and gunners and whatever, to look over and remember when they used to use these articles when they were new. More >>
Saturday, April 28 2012 1:02 AM EDT2012-04-28 05:02:32 GMT
Compared to the sleek lines of the Titanic, the Sultana looked like a disaster already, even before the tragedy hit it, in this, the last photograph taken of her as the Sultana passed Helena Arkansas inMore >>
In April 100 years ago the Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean with over 1,500 people losing their lives. But a boating disaster even more deadly than the Titanic happened on the Mississippi River.More >>
Tuesday, April 24 2012 8:13 PM EDT2012-04-25 00:13:17 GMT
Greenwood Cemetery was one of the very first things created in the new town of Jackson. The State Legislature passed an act establishing it in 1823. It has grown from its original six acres to 22 acresMore >>
Greenwood Cemetery was one of the very first things created in the new town of Jackson. The State Legislature passed an act establishing it in 1823. It has grown from its original six acres to 22 acres today. And a pretty good cross section of Jackson is buried here. It was never segregated. If you died in Jackson, you got buried here.More >>
Saturday, April 21 2012 12:16 AM EDT2012-04-21 04:16:18 GMT
I think I have spent more time in the Delta over the past few weeks than I have since I grew up there. Miz Jo and I have discovered over the years traveling around the state doing these stories that, moreMore >>
Tuesday, April 17 2012 10:19 PM EDT2012-04-18 02:19:13 GMT
There are a few of these old houses that once were show places on Lake Washington south of Greenville that have fallen into decay for one reason or another.More >>
Saturday, April 14 2012 9:58 AM EDT2012-04-14 13:58:13 GMT
It's the 5th season of the year for some die-hard fans. Winter, summer, spring, fall and baseball. I am here because my little friend, Lessie's mom, happened to mention to me at church the other day that 10 year-old Lessie is pitching this year in a girls fast-pitch softball league.More >>
Saturday, April 7 2012 12:35 AM EDT2012-04-07 04:35:24 GMT
If you don't have a hunk of petrified wood lying around your house somewhere it's just because you don't want one. Petrified wood is Mississippi's state stone. It's pretty common in our creeks and streams.More >>
Tuesday, April 3 2012 8:11 PM EDT2012-04-04 00:11:32 GMT
Ken Spellman of Louisville told me about the rocks the first time I heard of them. Indian Head Rock he called it. He said they were on land that belonged to Mr. Webb Pruitt Lee.More >>
Friday, March 23 2012 7:10 PM EDT2012-03-23 23:10:27 GMT
Travis was with his mom visiting at one of her friend's house when Travis got bored, as 17-year-olds are prone to do when mom is visiting. So Travis decided to entertain himself by doing what many 17 year-olds do, take pictures of himself in a mirror with his cell phone to post on Facebook.More >>
Saturday, March 17 2012 12:30 AM EDT2012-03-17 04:30:22 GMT
In the springtime of the year when things start blooming and greening up, lots of folks just automatically start thinking about gardens and growing things. More >>
Tuesday, March 13 2012 3:59 PM EDT2012-03-13 19:59:08 GMT
Rounding the bend in the driveway and catching that first glimpse of Longwood is breathtaking. It sits on the crown of the hill like a jewel. And that is exactly the effect Haller Nutt and his wife Julia wanted when they hired Philadelphia, Pennsylvania architect Samuel Sloan to design and build Longwood in 1859.More >>
Saturday, March 10 2012 12:08 AM EST2012-03-10 05:08:54 GMT
Robert Crowell has graduated through several mediums with his art, starting with clay and now into metal sculpting. His has been a journey of discovery and discipline in creating his work. More >>
Tuesday, March 6 2012 10:26 PM EST2012-03-07 03:26:55 GMT
When the Wisteria and Dogwood start to bloom, then it must be pilgrimage season in Mississippi. There is a classical aspect of the Natchez pilgrimage.More >>
Friday, March 2 2012 11:12 PM EST2012-03-03 04:12:16 GMT
The early days of rural African American education. The old one and two room school houses used to be everywhere. Now only a handful have survived and one of them in Jefferson County has just attained museum status. More >>
Tuesday, February 28 2012 10:39 PM EST2012-02-29 03:39:00 GMT
Mississippi is marching from winter into spring. And one would think the older you get the less you pay attention to things like that, you had seen it happen so many times before. But, the more seasons I've seen change, the more I marvel at them.More >>
Tuesday, February 21 2012 9:15 PM EST2012-02-22 02:15:45 GMT
Some people might think George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were worlds away from our state. But actually both were very interested in Mississippi. More >>
Saturday, February 11 2012 12:49 AM EST2012-02-11 05:49:51 GMT
I figure that I shoot an average of about 20 minutes of video for every two-minute story I end up with. So a bunch of what I shoot never gets seen by anyone but me. More >>
Friday, February 3 2012 7:53 PM EST2012-02-04 00:53:44 GMT
Sounds kind of odd, new life for a cemetery, but cemeteries are living things in the sense that life is preserved there and history is preserved there and they deserve respect. A cleaning up every now and again. Hopewell is a deserving cemetery that got that treatment.More >>
Friday, January 27 2012 8:26 PM EST2012-01-28 01:26:36 GMT
I was looking over one of the weather dispatches from the National Weather Service office in Jackson the other day, and the meteorologist who wrote it departed from his usual technical explanation of the logic behind the forecast to observe that we have had over a week of 70 degree-plus high temperatures at Jackson.More >>
Tuesday, January 24 2012 11:03 PM EST2012-01-25 04:03:08 GMT
Back behind Pleasant Valley Methodist Church in Foxworth is an old cemetery that the black community has been using as a burial ground for a long time. And a little wooden stake has been driven into the ground at the head of the grave of Sylvester Magee. More >>
Saturday, January 21 2012 1:21 AM EST2012-01-21 06:21:13 GMT
Sky Lake swamp has a bunch of \Cypress trees, but only a few big ones. It would have had a bunch more except for logging back in the 1930s extracted most of them. This one was left, probably because most of the top of it was blown out by an ancient tornado.More >>
Tuesday, January 17 2012 8:43 PM EST2012-01-18 01:43:30 GMT
Melissa Prewitt has lived with her grandparents since she was five years old. And as with many people who have a disability, Melissa has one incredible ability.More >>
Saturday, January 14 2012 12:56 AM EST2012-01-14 05:56:14 GMT
The National Park Service does this about five days every year, and the weekends surrounding those days, opens their parks without admission charge.More >>
Tuesday, January 3 2012 8:44 PM EST2012-01-04 01:44:37 GMT
It was a quick 10 days we Mississippians got to wander around Ireland. And we saw stuff that is so old it had already been in ruins centuries before the United States ever came into existence. But new and modern at the same time. More >>
Wednesday, December 28 2011 11:49 PM EST2011-12-29 04:49:42 GMT
In a little more than a week a second man has fallen from his boat while fishing, but this time a life jacket and quick action of workers in a nearby dentist office helped saved him.More >>
Tuesday, December 27 2011 7:49 PM EST2011-12-28 00:49:50 GMT
The night before our group from Mississippi circumnavigated the Ring of Kerry we ate at Kate Kearney's Cottage near Killarney. A traditional Irish trio performed for us, and a couple of youngsters danced.More >>
Saturday, December 24 2011 2:49 AM EST2011-12-24 07:49:27 GMT
All the Possumites welcome you to Possum Ridge again this year. Possum Ridge is the setting for the electric train Christmas display that they used to have at the Old Capitol.More >>
Tuesday, December 20 2011 8:20 PM EST2011-12-21 01:20:51 GMT
Just as you wouldn't go to Paris and not at least see the Eiffel Tower, or San Francisco and not see the Golden Gate, or Hawaii and not see Diamond Head, then you shouldn't come to Ireland and not kiss the Blarney Stone.More >>
Saturday, December 17 2011 12:48 AM EST2011-12-17 05:48:51 GMT
This is Sandra Mackee's village. It's her snow village. Snow Village is a type of Christmas collectable like the Dickens Village an others that keep's you occupied year round actually. More >>
Friday, December 9 2011 11:49 PM EST2011-12-10 04:49:51 GMT
Well, you get right down to it, the Santa's make the Long's house not only festive around Christmas, but ALL year. Because a few of the Santas in Judy's collection STAY out all the time.More >>
Friday, December 2 2011 7:12 PM EST2011-12-03 00:12:22 GMT
You may not realize what a cultural icon the lowly tamale is. But it has been recognized with it's own marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail, because tamales played such a big roll in the themes of blues songs. More >>
Tuesday, November 29 2011 9:21 PM EST2011-11-30 02:21:23 GMT
A Long Beach woman had an unusual solution to a typical growing season problem. Evelene Briggs had too many tomatoes and invented something we may all end up liking.More >>
Monday, November 28 2011 2:06 PM EST2011-11-28 19:06:29 GMT
Jackson, MS (WLBT) - It's funny how a little thing can grow into something else entirely. Take for instance the nativity set that Mrs. Charles Hyde Weissinger of Cary's, cousin sent her from Germany backMore >>
Friday, November 25 2011 11:46 PM EST2011-11-26 04:46:31 GMT
They are the kind of decorations you may have tried to make at one time or another. The kind accented by little shinny reflective dots with a pin pushed through them into a satin-covered Styrofoam ball.More >>
Wednesday, November 23 2011 12:45 AM EST2011-11-23 05:45:19 GMT
Although this is Thanksgiving week, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. The Brookhaven Chamber of Commerce offered a challenge to any stores willing to take it on; to decorate their display windows for the season. And lots of stores joined in.More >>
Friday, November 18 2011 11:43 PM EST2011-11-19 04:43:01 GMT
You'll hear the sound of chain saws on many Saturdays right now, drifting up from the woods back on top of a little knoll in the Mt. Charity community.More >>
Tuesday, November 15 2011 11:20 PM EST2011-11-16 04:20:04 GMT
Greenville song writer and singer Steve Azar has recently moved back to the Delta after a quarter century in Nashville. It's a re-attachment to his musical roots, the Delta, which is coincidentally where all of American's music is rooted, too.More >>
Tuesday, November 8 2011 8:55 PM EST2011-11-09 01:55:57 GMT
Although you more think of Ireland as the Emerald Isle, emerald meaning a lot of green grass, we discovered some of Ireland's most interesting geography to be a couple of areas of solid rock. More >>
Friday, November 4 2011 11:16 PM EDT2011-11-05 03:16:11 GMT
Our band of travelers from back home discovered some beautiful scenery our third day in Ireland. We started the day with a tour of the Connemara Celtic Crystal Company.More >>
Tuesday, November 1 2011 12:25 PM EDT2011-11-01 16:25:03 GMT
Just look around you and even where the trees are still green there is a dustiness to them. Fading. The underlying yellows and reds and browns emerging. Even summer flower beds are going to seed. And where the blossoms are managing to hang on, you know you'd better enjoy them now.More >>
Saturday, October 29 2011 12:04 AM EDT2011-10-29 04:04:20 GMT
Rodney is about half way between Natchez and Vicksburg and was a river port until the Mississippi River moved west over a century ago and left the town behind.More >>
Tuesday, October 25 2011 8:09 PM EDT2011-10-26 00:09:13 GMT
You look in yards and in flower gardens all over Rolling Fork and you'll see them. Bears. Well, not real ones but sculpted ones. They are here because the famous Delta Bear Hunt of Teddy Roosevelt in 1903 was just down the road at Smeed's Plantation.More >>
Friday, October 21 2011 9:29 PM EDT2011-10-22 01:29:17 GMT
Our first real excursion out into the Irish countryside as we started traveling west from Dublin came on our second day in the nation. We'd spend tonight in Galway, all the way on the other side of the country. But we had some stops to make in between.More >>
Wednesday, October 19 2011 12:04 AM EDT2011-10-19 04:04:01 GMT
I got an email the other day from someone wanting information about the Brandywine Wall. Once known as "The Great Wall of Mississippi." Ever heard of it? Well, here's the gist of what I found out.More >>
Tuesday, October 18 2011 2:33 PM EDT2011-10-18 18:33:04 GMT
Stacey Saucier and his brother recently added to their Copiah County hunting land with an additional 600 acres about a mile north of the Lincoln County line. As they were exploring their new acquisition looking for hot spots, they ran across this. An outcropping of limestone. More >>
Saturday, October 15 2011 1:28 AM EDT2011-10-15 05:28:06 GMT
Just before dusk gathers, the crowd gathers for an evening stroll around the Old Courthouse in Vicksburg and then on for a few more blocks, past a few of the old homes. Old homes you discover as tour guide Morgan Gates tells as you approach each one, have a past, themselves.More >>
Tuesday, October 11 2011 8:37 PM EDT2011-10-12 00:37:08 GMT
It's not the oldest church building in Ireland, but perhaps it's the most significant, being the National Cathedral of the Church of Ireland. And it's where we got off the tour bus for our first close up look around after arriving in Ireland.More >>
Saturday, October 8 2011 12:00 AM EDT2011-10-08 04:00:52 GMT
We rode into Dublin from the airport on the E1 highway. "E" highways are a European designation and used all over the cotenant for roads that cross international borders. There are M-roads, like our interstates,More >>
Tuesday, October 4 2011 8:25 PM EDT2011-10-05 00:25:48 GMT
They are raising more than scholars at Spann Elementary in Jackson. If you drive Ridgewood Road, past Spann, you've probably already seen the garden out in front of the school. In it, students can readily apply lessons learned from books, and also in it, the community is finding common ground for supporting the school.More >>
Friday, September 30 2011 10:02 PM EDT2011-10-01 02:02:39 GMT
The statue of Laura Kelly has been a landmark in the Kosciusko Cemetery for over a century. But she's changed over time. And some Attala County folks are hoping to restore her to her former glory.More >>
Wednesday, September 28 2011 11:43 AM EDT2011-09-28 15:43:30 GMT
They say there are 40 shades of green in Ireland. You can find almost that many shades in some yards. As well as shades of reds and oranges and blues and pinks and violets in flowers from cultivated beds and hanging baskets.More >>
Friday, September 23 2011 6:20 PM EDT2011-09-23 22:20:00 GMT
It is a one of a kind collection with museum quality pieces in it. And it is open to the public by appointment. It started off as the hobby of Bill Taylor of Taylor Machinery, and is now the Big Red Fire Museum.More >>
Tuesday, September 20 2011 11:42 AM EDT2011-09-20 15:42:13 GMT
People have been coming to Natchez for decades during the spring and fall pilgrimage to tour the old homes. Since there was no major fighting in Natchez during the Civil War, a bunch of them survivedMore >>
Saturday, September 17 2011 1:24 AM EDT2011-09-17 05:24:14 GMT
One bedroom of Dolly Bond's home has all the walls covered with Dolly's creations, abstracts, angels, Christmas scenes, even models of quilt patterns. All made from buttons, thousands and thousands of buttons.More >>
Tuesday, September 6 2011 8:34 PM EDT2011-09-07 00:34:22 GMT
Take yourself back to a time before weather satellites and computer models, even TV weathercasts, to when you forecast the weather by how many and which joints ached when you got up in the morning.More >>
Saturday, September 3 2011 12:59 AM EDT2011-09-03 04:59:08 GMT
It fell to Lisa Brasher to sort out her mom's effects after her mom passed away. And in an old suitcase she found this. A program for the Mize Watermelon Festival from over 30 years ago. A photograph of her mom's family before her mom was born.More >>
Friday, August 26 2011 11:44 PM EDT2011-08-27 03:44:01 GMT
To get to the head end of our man-made wonder that you'll find in this part of the state, you'll have to travel past some natural beauty, like Cooper Falls in J.P. Coleman State Park on the west bank ofMore >>
Saturday, August 20 2011 12:31 AM EDT2011-08-20 04:31:27 GMT
Back in 1884, Mr. E.A Simmons and his brother-in-law, Tom Wright had a small wood framed store at this spot in Kewanee, Mississippi. But it burned in 1925. But then a year later, they opened this spaciousMore >>
Tuesday, August 16 2011 9:32 PM EDT2011-08-17 01:32:42 GMT
In parts of Mississippi there are mounds older than the Pyramids in Egypt. And some that are just a few hundred years old. Coming out of the forests north of present day Natchez, the ancestors of the Natchez Indians built Emerald Mound.More >>
Wednesday, August 10 2011 1:42 AM EDT2011-08-10 05:42:09 GMT
They are about to tear down the old Mendenhall High School Building and replace it with something more needed. But even if they remove the building, in at least one sense, the school will continue on.More >>
Saturday, August 6 2011 12:00 PM EDT2011-08-06 16:00:19 GMT
This is Renate Hunt of Brandon. She's heading out into her back yard to gather eggs. And if you were raised in the country, an entirely different mental picture of what she is going after may have popped into your mind.More >>
Tuesday, August 2 2011 10:21 PM EDT2011-08-03 02:21:42 GMT
We all like birthday cards. Lois Hayes of Lexington counts on that. Because she sends out hundreds and hundreds of birthday cards a year, and has been doing so for years. To who? Or, since she is a teacher, maybe I should say to whom?
Saturday, July 30 2011 12:07 AM EDT2011-07-30 04:07:34 GMT
The church bell rang again in the steeple of the old Rodney Presbyterian Church the other day. Not that it couldn't have all along. But there were no people around to pull the rope.More >>
Wednesday, July 27 2011 1:25 AM EDT2011-07-27 05:25:32 GMT
After you've put together a few decades of realizing the sun comes up every morning, you may forget that day break is special: even on a less-than-sunny morning.More >>
Saturday, July 23 2011 1:30 AM EDT2011-07-23 05:30:01 GMT
Here at the edge of the Mississippi River at Grand Gulf State Park, there would have been maybe15 or 20 feet or more of water over our heads at the height of the flood. There is a marker along the road showing the height of the various great Mississippi floods here.More >>
Wednesday, July 13 2011 1:42 AM EDT2011-07-13 05:42:08 GMT
In this edition of Look Around Mississippi, we take a trip to neighboring Alabama. Jim Bird who lives about 10 miles north of Demopolis, Alabama has been making hay bale creations out along the HighwayMore >>
Saturday, July 9 2011 12:42 AM EDT2011-07-09 04:42:34 GMT
Friendship Cemetery in Columbus is known for several reasons. Not the least of which is, this is the place where what we know as Memorial Day originated.More >>
Tuesday, July 5 2011 8:48 PM EDT2011-07-06 00:48:17 GMT
At first glance this looks to be just another old, mostly neglected cemetery on a ridge top, way out in the country. There's some newer headstones way up front. Even some relatively fresh flowers. So, evidently some people are buried here that folks alive today still remember.More >>
Saturday, July 2 2011 11:50 PM EDT2011-07-03 03:50:21 GMT
Mary Ellison: It was cold and the wind had blown a lot of leaves up under the porch. So I got my broom and went out and swept. And when I started back in the door, I saw this image.More >>
Friday, June 24 2011 11:00 PM EDT2011-06-25 03:00:35 GMT
A cheerful Red Cross volunteer presents another flood victim more of the supplies they will need to keep themselves clean and to clean up the muck that coats where they once lived.More >>
Tuesday, June 21 2011 7:58 PM EDT2011-06-21 23:58:38 GMT
It's no fairy tale that one of the nation's finest collections of children's books and original manuscripts for children's books is right here in Mississippi. The collection started out as a way for library science students to see the process of writing, and has ended us as a valuable research tool. More >>
Friday, June 17 2011 11:01 PM EDT2011-06-18 03:01:31 GMT
Ken Spellman of Louisville told me about the rocks the first time I heard of them. Indian Head Rock he called it. He said they were on land that belonged to Mr. Webb Pruitt Lee. And they had been an oddity and a mystery in Winston County for a long time.More >>
Tuesday, June 14 2011 8:44 PM EDT2011-06-15 00:44:13 GMT
The writers Mississippi has produced have filled bookcase upon bookcase around the world. And the films made from those writings have filled endless hours on the motion picture screen. And our playwrights have crafted some of the longest runs on Broadway.More >>
Tuesday, June 14 2011 4:28 PM EDT2011-06-14 20:28:08 GMT
I realize that even though our state was named for the Mississippi River that we don't have exclusive rights to it. As a matter of fact, it drains parts of 34 states including ours, all the way from the Rockies to the Appalachians.More >>
Tuesday, June 7 2011 8:22 PM EDT2011-06-08 00:22:28 GMT
Adam and Eve lived in a garden, and people have been planting and growing gardens ever since then. Suzanne Hale in Madison County is no exception, although she admits she was a late bloomer. And Suzanne passes along some tips for us as we try to coax our flowers along.More >>
Tuesday, June 7 2011 5:44 PM EDT2011-06-07 21:44:43 GMT
We've been on walks in the woods, but this is a different kind of woods. This one has to the oldest forest in the state. Over 36 million years old. It's the Mississippi Petrified Forest at Flora which preserves one of the state's unique landscapes.More >>
Tuesday, June 7 2011 5:41 PM EDT2011-06-07 21:41:42 GMT
Greenville writer David Cohn originated the much-plagiarized parameters of the Delta as starting in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis and stretching all the way to Catfish Row in Vicksburg.More >>
Tuesday, May 31 2011 12:24 PM EDT2011-05-31 16:24:04 GMT
The Mississippi River has been in the news so much lately that Mississippians are reminded how much all of the rivers and streams of this state are a part of everyone's lives.More >>
Tuesday, May 31 2011 12:23 PM EDT2011-05-31 17:23:08 GMT
At the turn of the 20th Century, Mississippi designed and built its new state house. In 1900 the legislature authorized its construction. It took two years to built it, finished in 1903 at a cost of a million dollars.More >>
Tuesday, May 31 2011 12:21 PM EDT2011-05-31 16:21:42 GMT
There is flooding in places other than just along the Mississippi River. That's the normal place you'd look for problems associated with high water, along the Mississippi River and in the flatlands of the Delta.More >>
Tuesday, May 31 2011 12:19 PM EDT2011-05-31 16:19:13 GMT
The Biloxi Lighthouse has to be on the list of Mississippi Wonders if, for no other reason, than it is still there after Katrina. But it has lit the way on the coast for many years.More >>
Tuesday, May 31 2011 12:18 PM EDT2011-05-31 16:18:35 GMT
The Mississippi Museum of Art features regular gallaries open for free all the time. The museum also features special shows and events. The special event right now is "The Orient Express" with examples of just how much influence Japan has had on western culture.More >>
Tuesday, May 31 2011 12:17 PM EDT2011-05-31 17:17:55 GMT
I don't think anyone who has ever visited the Ruins of Windsor has not viewed it with a profound sense of loss. What must have been one of the most magnificent homes in America at the time is, gone, with the exception of some decorated columns.More >>
Tuesday, April 26 2011 3:45 PM EDT2011-04-26 20:45:36 GMT
I've been doing stories off and on in Nita Lewis' flowerbeds for 20 years, I guess. She's had daylilies, which she set aside for irises, which she's now set aside for roses. And she's stuck with the roses for several years. The other flowers were nice, but there was something lacking.More >>
Tuesday, April 26 2011 3:44 PM EDT2011-04-26 19:44:56 GMT
Robert Johnson is musically the great grand daddy of blues and rock & roll in that he influenced all the influential bluesmen who went on to influence everybody else. And that's why this monument to him at Mt. Zion Church near Morgan City in LeFlore County is appropriate.More >>
Tuesday, April 19 2011 5:55 PM EDT2011-04-19 21:55:04 GMT
They were one of the two affordable cars that Ford Motor Company built that changed the way the world lived. The first was the Model T. And then this one, the Model A.More >>
Tuesday, April 19 2011 5:54 PM EDT2011-04-19 21:54:19 GMT
This edition of Look Around Mississippi is about a whole group of writers who are looking around Mississippi. The trail that Union General Grant took in 1863 in the Vicksburg campaign for the upcoming 150th anniversary of the Vicksburg Campaign during the Civil War.More >>
Tuesday, April 12 2011 11:55 AM EDT2011-04-12 16:55:26 GMT
The occasion for this invasion of journalists and travel writers and tour guides is the upcoming 150th Anniversary of the Vicksburg Campaign during the Civil War.More >>
Tuesday, April 12 2011 11:51 AM EDT2011-04-12 15:51:42 GMT
This is the Atlantic Ocean on the southeastern coast of Maine. And out there, the sun is rising. I don't catch a lot of sunrises, but I wanted to see this one. Because the coast of Maine is where the raysMore >>
Wednesday, April 6 2011 1:09 PM EDT2011-04-06 17:09:24 GMT
Nothing sits still very long. It either e-volves into something bigger and better, or it de-volves and goes away. Or, it takes the course of the world and re-volves, and comes around again as something different. And that's what we have today, the story of what became of a community in Lincoln County.More >>
Wednesday, April 6 2011 11:48 AM EDT2011-04-06 16:48:22 GMT
It crowns a bluff in downtown Natchez overlooking the Mississippi River; well, past the post office it overlooks the river. The bluff has a name and then the house gets its name from the bluff.More >>
Wednesday, April 6 2011 11:43 AM EDT2011-04-06 15:43:52 GMT
It's the antebellum homes and the flowers that are attracting the pilgrims to pilgrimage in Natchez right now. And the fresh azaleas and left over dogwoods are putting on a good show this year. But there'sMore >>
Tuesday, March 22 2011 12:15 PM EDT2011-03-22 16:15:23 GMT
The town of Aberdeen sprang up in almost a day back after 1830, after the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek opened up former Choctaw land for settlers to inhabit. And almost immediately, they started burying people here in the Old Aberdeen Cemetery.More >>
Tuesday, March 22 2011 12:21 AM EDT2011-03-22 04:21:24 GMT
John Campbell of Starkville is an inventor. He owns eight patents. And last weekend, John was honored at the premiering of a video about his life that takes him from a youngster on the cotton plantations of the delta, to the brink of success in the manufacturing world.More >>
Tuesday, March 15 2011 12:35 PM EDT2011-03-15 16:35:36 GMT
I don't know why Spring amazes me so much every year, but it does. This Look Around story is a collection of pictures of some of the things happening right now that I just wanted to slow down and take a look at.More >>
Tuesday, March 15 2011 12:29 PM EDT2011-03-15 16:29:34 GMT
Old Cove in Webster County near Eupora is about as well hidden as you can get for a 350 acre plot. It is sunken about 100 to 150 feet below the surrounding surface. And it had landscape unfamiliar to most of the rest of Mississippi.More >>
Sunday, May 20 2012 12:23 AM EDT2012-05-20 04:23:16 GMT
Several people were injured Saturday night in a hail of gunfire in the Capital City. We have very few details about the shooting in the 600 block of Woodrow Wilson Avenue. Jackson police and AMR AmbulanceMore >>
Several people were injured Saturday night in a hail of gunfire in the Capital City.More >>
Sunday, May 20 2012 9:07 AM EDT2012-05-20 13:07:45 GMT
The first annular solar eclipse in 18 years will take place this evening. An annular solar eclipse is when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun, and at the peak of the eclipse, only a ring ofMore >>
The first annular solar eclipse in 18 years will take place this evening. An annular solar eclipse is when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun, and at the peak of the eclipse, only a ring ofMore >>
Friday, May 18 2012 7:17 PM EDT2012-05-18 23:17:11 GMT
(WMC-TV) - More than 1,000 Action News 5 Facebook fans are rallying around a mother who feels Facebook is discriminating against photos she posted on the social media network of her son. Grayson JamesMore >>
UPDATE: A Mid-South mother has been banned from Facebook for the photos she posted of her newborn son.
Saturday, May 19 2012 3:51 PM EDT2012-05-19 19:51:17 GMT
SPARTANBURG COUNTY, SC (WYFF) After a woman stopped in a stranger's driveway and danced around with a cupholder from her car stuck in her hair, she was arrested when her 2-year-old child was found naked,More >>
After a woman stopped in a stranger's driveway and danced around with a cupholder from her car stuck in her hair, she was arrested when her 2-year-old child was found naked, curled in a fetal position behind the driver's seat in the car, according to the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office.More >>
Friday, May 18 2012 11:57 PM EDT2012-05-19 03:57:30 GMT
(WMC-TV) – Mid-South drivers are cautiously taking a sigh of relief, now that a suspected roadside killer is in jail. For the first time, Action News 5 is hearing from that suspect's mother. The familiesMore >>
Mid-South drivers are cautiously taking a sigh of relief, now that a suspected roadside killer is in jail. For the first time, Action News 5 is hearing from that suspect's mother.More >>
Hollywood star Will Smith has slapped a male television reporter who tried to kiss him before the Moscow premiere of "Men in Black III."More >>
Hollywood star Will Smith slapped a male television reporter who he said tried to kiss him on the lips as he walked down the red carpet for the Moscow premiere of "Men in Black III."More >>
Friday, May 18 2012 5:54 AM EDT2012-05-18 09:54:56 GMT
(WMC-TV) – The sister of Adam Mayes is shedding light into their family history and revealing secrets that expose the devil inside of the man accused of kidnap and murder. Pamela Bain is Adam Mayes' olderMore >>
The sister of Adam Mayes is shedding light into their family history and revealing secrets that expose the devil inside of the man accused of kidnap and murder.More >>
Sunday, May 20 2012 12:32 AM EDT2012-05-20 04:32:37 GMT
Special Boat Team 22 demonstrate an attack scenario Saturday afternoon for those attending the "Trail of Honor," giving an idea of how the special warfare combatant crewmen would react with multiple weapons.More >>
Special Boat Team 22 demonstrate an attack scenario Saturday afternoon for those attending the "Trail of Honor," giving an idea of how the special warfare combatant crewmen would react with multiple weapons.More >>
Sunday, May 20 2012 12:19 AM EDT2012-05-20 04:19:56 GMT
It was a thrilling day on the waters of the reservoir Saturday as teams paddle to the finish during this years Dragon Boat Regatta. The reservoir shoreline was filled with people taking in the race. FortyMore >>
It was a thrilling day on the waters of the reservoir Saturday as teams paddle to the finish during this years Dragon Boat Regatta.More >>
Saturday, May 19 2012 1:06 PM EDT2012-05-19 17:06:56 GMT
It happened like that. A moment of bad timing that cost an elderly woman her family heirlooms. Here's the scenario a 76 year old woman was all packed up to go to the airport. She has a big heavy suitcase,More >>
It happened like that. A moment of bad timing that cost an elderly woman her family heirlooms... More >>
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