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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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

This old house is on the old Battle Field at Port Gibson. And sometimes the old house it still in a battle.More >>

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 >>

There's the line from a song that asks "Why can't everyday be like Christmas?"Well, at the Edwards House in Thomastown, it is.More >>

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 >>

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 >>

January is often-times a gloomy month in Mississippi. Often the weather is a reflection of the mood of the people living here.More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Mississippi has a new quarter. It's part of the America The Beautiful Series commemorating national parks.More >>

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 >>

It was once the county seat of Choctaw County and now it is just a memory and a couple of cemeteries.More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

An adventurous boat ride down the Mississippi River, that results in an encounter with a nuisance species of fish.More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Starkville Daily News recently had a showing of local artist Carole McReynolds Davis' paintings.More >>