This week I heard an amazing fact.  Many of the students at Delta State have never lived outside Mississippi.  Some have never even left the region.  Now that should not be surprising since before moving to the South I’d never lived outside New York State.  But my world view was broader which was one of…

For much of this past week I was at the Mississippi Library Association Conference.  Several of us carpooled down with me riding with the Dean of Libraries.  This year it was held in Biloxi.   The Association hadn’t been to the Gulf Coast since before Katrina hit so this year was special in a lot of…

This weekend was special here in Cleveland.   You see every year over the second weekend of this month Octoberfest is held.  You have probably heard that term before.  It gets attached to a lot of things around this time of year.  The first, and probably largest, is held every year in Munich, Germany.  According to…

During my trip down you may recall that I posted pictures of as many of the state flags and welcome signs as I could.   Conspicuously absent was that of the state I now live in.  Let me do so now: The Mississippi state flag is the one closest to the foreground.  It is impossible to…