WLBT 3 - Jackson, MS: Look Around Mississippi
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First set of shots, here's what happens when they fill the Barnett Reservoir with hot water. No, not really. This is what the spillway looks like the first really chilly morning before the water in the rez has had a chance to cool down to match the air. More>>
What you don't expect to see in California is a Danish village. But you can find it in Solvang. It's in wine country in Santa Barbara County. 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>>
