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By Walt Grayson - bio | email PEARL HARBOR, HI (WLBT) - I had heard that the traffic around Honolulu was bad. That was an understatement. There is no "rush" to the morning rush hour inbound. Fortunately, More>>
The middle of February, a bunch of us from home went on a 10-day excursion to Hawaii. Someone said half the fun of a trip is getting there. Well, here's the "getting there" part of our adventure. More>>
By Walt Grayson - bio | email SKAGWAY, ALASKA (WLBT) - Of the several things that impressed me about our trip to Alaska, one was how young this area is. The big interest in Alaska only came just a little More>>
Every night on the Olympics, we're getting to see the metropolis of Vancouver, British Columbia. But on my trip to Alaska a couple of years ago, the troop also made a trip into British Columbia. Not all of that part of Canada is as tame as Vancouver. More>>
Well, here we are in the only group picture we managed to get, at mile marker zero of the Trans-Canada highway. It starts here where we were in Victoria, British Columbia, and ends 3000 miles east of us. More>>
In honor of the Olympics, this story picks up on the ferry between Victoria and Vancouver, and gives us a quick look at the city that is hosting the winter games. More>>
Chroniclers will no doubt mark the beginning of this upcoming epoch by writing something like, "It began snowing again in Mississippi in 2009." And it has been snowing regularly since then. More>>
We've had lots of rain so far this winter and that has put water back where it's supposed to be. And done a good job of it. Almost too good in some places. Take the delta, for instance. Dry in recent years, now the bayous are back, and then some. More>>
There are some interesting stories in Mississippi cemeteries. Here's a few I've dug up. More>>
The B.B. King Museum in Indianola incorporates the last remaining brick cotton gin building left standing in the state as a part of its campus. More>>
Even though it's Mardi Gras time in Natchez, we bypassed the revelry this past weekend for just what was offered; a chance to get away from home and relax. More>>
Don't let the sunshine fool you. We still have the biggest part of winter to go. I've been looking around in the video files for my proof. What a difference a week makes! Today, sail boats are skimming across the reservoir. More>>
Some people are creative and don't recognize it. Others know it and don't express it. Then there are those like Deborah Hayes. More>>
Well, we're finally thawing out somewhat after the big freeze of 2010. We don't get that many deep freezes here in the deep south. So when we get one, we stop and ponder. More>>
Even the most avid of procrastinators has their Christmas trees down by now. But at the street house in Ridgeland, not only is their more than one tree, they're all still up, and will be throughout the year. More>>
It was a reunion prompted by the death of a relative. Not all that unusual. Nowadays that's one of the few times that the family can get together and visit, is when someone dies. More>>
Rodney was once a growing river port about half way between Vicksburg and Natchez. The Rodney Presbyterian Church is a wilderness destination for the adventurous nowadays. More>>
The Jackson Zoo turned 90 years old in 2009, and Walt opens the year remembering. More>>
A restored old Opera House becomes a Mississippi treasure. More>>
The stockings that were hung by the chimney with care from last night have been flung to the four corners of the living room by now. More>>
Take a walk around the back yard of the Yelverton house just out from Magee and you'll see things growing that you usually only see in the produce section in Mississippi. In addition to bananas, there are Louisiana Satsumas, lemons, pineapples and oranges. More>>
Walt travels with a group of Mississippian through the Golden State, California. More>>
Lenora Williams wanted something to plant out in her front yard to set out flowers around. One of her co-workers told her not to buy anything, she had just the plant for her; a banana tree. More>>
A 100-year-old church is saved by its "friends" in Winona, Mississippi. More>>
We got to walk around, ride around and even take the cable car around San Francisco. And once you finally shoved it out of your mind that the big one probably wouldn't hit while you were there, it was a delightful town full of personality and charm. More>>
Well, we Mississippians got to see many things on the California trip that we don't get to see at home; mountains, deserts, the Pacific Ocean and some pretty big places, like San Francisco. More>>
Famous photographer Ansel Adams once said that the most important element in taking a good photograph is knowing where to stand. And I'll add, knowing when to stand there. More>>
In this recent weather event we discovered something; not only can lightening strike twice in the same place, so can floods. That's what's happened at Sciples Mill. More>>
Our group of Mississippians looking around had just spent few hours in the old-Wild-West West town of Virginia City, when next, we boarded the bus for our overnight stay at Lake Tahoe. More>>
Edward Sciple says the little water mill sitting on the banks of Running Tiger Creek in Kemper County is the oldest continuously run business in the state. More>>
If you're a long-time TV fan, you'll remember the name Virginia City as the home of Bonanza. Although most of the outdoor shots of the Ponderosa Ranch were made at Lake Tahoe, not all that far away. More>>
Lots of old things happened in Claiborne County. It's the third oldest county in the state. And lots of people who later became famous, came though here or lived here before they became members of Who's Who. More>>
This is another installment in our series of stories from our "Great California Train Adventure we took along with a bunch of Mississippians this summer. More>>
Labor Day four years ago was much different than today on the Gulf Coast as well as much of the rest of Mississippi, as we were trying to comprehend the damage of Hurricane Katrina. Here's a look at a few spots on the coast today. More>>
Skeptics once looked at the King Edward Hotel renovation as something that would never happen. Yet in December of 2009 it will open. Hotel rooms are on the lower floors, apartments on the upper. That's something else skeptics said would never happen; people actually leasing those downtown apartments. Well, they already are, where they are available. More>>
So you hate Lakeland Drive in Jackson in rush hour? Take this on for size. And this roadway is moving smoothly. This is one of the arteries leading to the heart of the city between O'Hare Airport, where we landed the night before, and downtown Chicago, where we'd board the California Zephyr Amtrak train bound for Reno. But first, we took a bus tour of the city. More>>
This house is in De Soto Village in east central Mississippi in Clark County a little south of Quitman. It was built in 1840. It's been in the Carmichael family since 1899. More>>
Here we are in the heat of summer, but Walt Grayson says some of our favorite summer spots are interesting in winter. We are looking around Merit Falls in Simpson County. More>>
Chatawa is about as far south as you can go in Mississippi on I-55 south before crossing into Louisiana. It used to have as many as 500 people living here. More>>
The sun is warm and the sky is blue. What a great time to be up in the air, with your feet planted firmly on the ground at the same time. More>>
Summertime is the time for summer archeology digs. Here in Mississippi, a couple of major undertakings were aimed at learning more about the mound builders who left our landscape dotted with what we know as Indian Mounds. More>>
Curious George is right at home here. As well as the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew and Dr. Seuss and thousands of other childhood characters and writers from all over the world. More>>
The top 5 favorite family campgrounds in Mississippi recently announced in the top 100 of 4000 parks around the country. More>>
Do you know where Walt is? Today he is bound to be on the road somewhere in Mississippi creating a new Look Around Mississippi. More>>
