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For thousands of years Native Americans used fire to manage the forests of South Mississippi. In this episode Ecologist, Tate Thriffiley explains why this practice was good for the longleaf pines and the entire ecosystem.
\\nBy 1930, virtually all of the longleaf pines in Mississippi had been harvested. Thriffiley describes the mistakes made in replanting the DeSoto National Forest and explains why a host of State and Federal agencies have teamed up with conservation groups to promote the planting of longleaf pines in Mississippi.
\\nPODCAST EXTRA: Keith Coursey is the Prescription Forester on the DeSoto National Forest.\\xa0 He recounts the history of the Forest Service and its evolving attitude towards fire.
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\\xa0\\xa0 CNN sent correspondent Kathleen Koch to Mobile, Alabama to ride out Hurricane Katrina. After the storm, when she was finally allowed to travel to her hometown, Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi, the level of devastation and suffering she witnessed was overwhelming.
\\n\\xa0\\xa0 In this episode, Koch describes feeling intensely conflicted between the detachment her job required and the desire to cast aside her role as a reporter and do anything possible to alleviate the suffering she encountered.\\xa0 She and crew decided to use their time off the air to search for the missing and help survivors.
\\n\\xa0\\xa0 After Hurricane Katrina, South Mississippi residents came together in a spirit of cooperation and self-reliance.\\xa0 Koch recalls a resourceful group of young people she met at their unauthorized shelter and a mad dash to Wal-Mart to bring them much needed supplies.
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John Hairston was the Chief Operations Officer for Hancock Bank in Gulfport, when in Fall of 2005, Hurricane Katrina threatened the coast. In this episode, he remembers preparing for a hit, but predicting a miss.
\\nWhen Hancock Bank\'s corporate headquarters was wiped out, all of the bank\\u2019s records and computers were destroyed. Hairston explains how they were able to transfer all of their operations to Chicago within four days. Hairston recalls handing out tens of millions of dollars to anyone with an IOU and giving a new meaning to the phrase "money laundering."
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George Bass was the Long Beach Fire Chief when Hurricane Katrina struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 2005. In this episode, he remembers meeting with his men in the final hours before the storm and how he assured them that they would be okay. Bass describes how he and his fellow firemen hunkered down as the winds from Katrina threatened to bring the station down around them. He also explains how they fanned out looking for survivors even before the storm had passed
\\nAfterwards, it was time for the cleanup to begin. Bass recalls feeling overwhelmed by the enormity of the task before them.
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In August of 2005, Angelia Gray was the Food and Beverage Director of a Hattiesburg hotel.\\xa0 In this episode, she explains how she and the rest of the hotel staff prepared for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina as the hotel began to fill up with evacuees.\\xa0 Gray recalls riding out the storm and caring for their guests.
\\nAfter Katrina was over, Gray had to cook for the all the guests.\\xa0 She explains how she was able to feed so many people without electricity or water.
\\nOf that experience, Gray remembers the spirit of cooperation among most of the guests and the bad behavior of a few.
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Tommy Longo was Mayor of Waveland when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in August of 2005. In the episode, he remembers the city before storm and the devastation after.
\\nAs Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the early morning hours of August 29th, 2005, Longo and his family took shelter in the Waveland command post. He recalls the group\\u2019s struggle to survive as the floodwaters rose.
\\nLongo was born and raised in the city of Waveland.\\xa0 He discusses how Hurricane Katrina has changed the he thinks about his home town. He also recalls their efforts to convince everyone to evacuate the area and how he convinced one lady to leave her cats.
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In 1983, a hazardous-waste disposal company attempted to build a toxic waste dump in the town of Shuqualak in Noxubee County, Mississippi. In this episode, Martha Blackwell describes how local citizens organized to fight back and were able to have a five year moratorium placed on chemical disposal sites in Mississippi.
\\n\\xa0In 1991, after the moratorium expired, plans were announced to construct three toxic waste facilities in Noxubee County.\\xa0 Blackwell recalls how she learned about a hazardous-waste dump to be constructed on her neighbor\\u2019s land. She details how their group fought to keep these facilities out of Noxubee county and why they felt that having three high capacity sites would lead to waste from across the country being brought to Mississippi for disposal.
\\nIn a podcast extra, Blackwell credits the Choctaw Indians with preventing the plans to construct a dump site on reservation land.
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Charlie Barrett is the former Mayor of Shuqualak (Sugar Lock). It this episode, he recounts the story of how his great grandfather donated the land for the train station. He also recalls how the farmers would bring their cotton to be ginned on Saturday mornings and stay all day.
\\nAs a boy, Barrett knew all of the merchants in Shuqualak.\\xa0 He remembers one who would speak to him in Choctaw. Years later, Barrett, now a young business owner himself, struggled to make ends meet until one day, an old merchant made him the offer of a lifetime.
\\nPhoto credit: hickoryridgestudio49.blogspot.com
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John Ellzie Carr joined the Tupelo Police Department in 1921 and served as the town\'s chief of police from 1925 until 1952.\\xa0 In this episode, Dudley Carr remembers his father\\u2019s natural talent for law enforcement. He recalls the city\\u2019s primitive jail and even more primitive alarm system.
\\nIn 1932, the infamous bank robber, Machine Gun Kelly held up the Citizen\\u2019s National Bank of Tupelo. Dudley Carr explains how the robbery inspired the city to buy its own Thompson submachine gun.
\\nIn a podcast extra, Carr looks back with pride at his father\\u2019s legacy and what it\\u2019s meant to his own career.
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Emma Foret was the wife of a Navy hospital corpsman. In this episode she recalls their life together and how she and the children coped with her husband\\u2019s absence.
\\nShe also discusses the special bond between the Navy and Marine Corp and how the wives of these servicemen depended on each other.
\\nPODCAST EXTRA: Even in times of peace, conflicts can arise at a moment\\u2019s notice.\\xa0 Foret remembers her husband\\u2019s role in two such events and how the Navy kept the families informed.
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Mary Louise Tarver was born in 1918 on Elm\\u2019s Court Plantation in Natchez.\\xa0 In this episode, she recalls her Uncle Will\\u2019s garden and his prickly relationship with her mother.
\\nGrowing up on a farm taught Mary Louise Tarver to enjoy simple pleasures.\\xa0 She remembers riding horseback to the Homochitto Swamp to spend the day fishing.
\\nFor Mary Louise Tarver, farm life meant learning to be self-sufficient. She describes how her mother would use apple peels to make vinegar, and use the vinegar to make pickles.
\\nPODCAST EXTRA: During the Great Depression, some schools began serving students a hot lunch using food items provided by government.\\xa0 Tarver recalls how the lunch lady did the best she could with what she had on hand.
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At the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Italian emigrants were encouraged to come to the Mississippi Delta to farm. In this episode, John Bassie of Bolivar County shares his family\\u2019s story of coming to America and how they taught him to love their adopted country.
\\nFor those Italian emigrants who made a home in the Mississippi Delta, the Fourth of July was always a big deal. Bassie recalls how his family celebrated with lots of eating and singing. He remembers those Independence Day celebrations as a cultural melting pot of food, music, and fun that involved the entire community.
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Dr. Rodney Bennett was named President of The University of Southern Mississippi on February 7, 2013. In this episode, he discusses how he felt when an EF-4 tornado decimated the campus three days later.
\\nBennett was happily serving as Vice President of Student Affairs at the University of Georgia when he was selected as USM\\u2019s 10th President. He recalls accepting the position with a sense of purpose.
\\nThe morning after the tornado struck, Bennett addressed the 900 students, faculty and staff that had gathered to assist with the cleanup. He remembers searching for the right words to say on the ride over.
\\nPodcast Extra:\\xa0 Bennett credits USM\\u2019s recovery since the storm to loyal alumni like Chuck Scianna.\\xa0 He stresses the importance of graduating eagles returning to the nest.
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Stone Barefield of Hattiesburg ran for the State House of Representatives in 1959. In this episode, he remembers his campaign committee and the only speech he ever wrote. He also discusses the days before televised debates, when politicians relied on \\u201cstump speeches\\u201d to get their message to the voters.
\\nRunning for state representative of Forrest County meant doing a lot of walking.\\xa0 Barefield remembers meeting good folks and eating good food.
\\nAccording to Barefield, South Mississippi was not being fairly represented in those days.\\xa0 In this podcast extra, he discusses House Speaker Walter Sellers and the fight for reapportionment.\\xa0
\\nIn later years, Barefield pushed legislation for the establishment of the Longleaf Trace fittness trail, a rails-to-trails conversion of 41 miles of abandoned railroad track between Hattiesburg and Prentiss.
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Prior to 1936, Highway 49 was a narrow, twisting, gravel road. In this episode, Chrysteen Flynt of D\\u2019lo, recalls learning to drive on Old 49 back in 1922.
\\nFor years,\\xa0 Flynt served as the unofficial historian for the town of D\\u2019lo. She notes that the rocky banks of the Strong River there were home to a water-driven sawmill as well as a meeting place for the Choctaws.
\\nThe origins of the name D\\u2019lo have always been a source of debate for residents and visitors alike. Flynt, attempts to set the record straight.
\\nThe D\\u2019lo\\u2019s largest employer was the Finkbine Lumber Company. In this podcast extra, Flynt remembers the YMCA the company built for the town and the silent movies that played there.
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On September 29th, 1915, a category four hurricane made landfall near Grand Isle, Louisiana, killing 275 people. In this episode, Jim Kelly of English Lookout recalls the town\\u2019s largest employer and the aftermath of the storm. He remember how the factory used to produce crushed oyster shells by the trainload and how the hurricane changed all that.
\\nKelly was 10 years old when the hurricane destroyed the school and most of the homes in English Lookout.\\xa0 He explains why he wasn\\u2019t able to return to school until two years later.
\\nIn this Podcast Extra, Kelly describes how they would unload oysters from the schooners and roll them in railcars into the factory steamers.
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Bill Barnes of Jackson joined the Coast Guard the day after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. In this episode, he recalls his time in the Pacific spent aboard a Patrol boat. Barnes also describes the process of arming and testing the new craft before heading out to sea.
\\nAfter serving two years in the Pacific Theater, Barnes returned stateside for a new duty: helping develop rescue methods still used by the Coast Guard today.
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\\nAt the beginning of the war, the Coast Guard didn\\u2019t have enough uniforms, weapons or even beds for the influx of new recruits.
\\nBarnes recalls going to extremes to try and keep warm.
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Gene Stork, of Moss Point, began working as a commercial fisherman in 1954. In this episode he recalls being part of a \\u201cmother boat\\u201d crew and how they worked together to catch fish.
\\nHe also discusses how Coastal fishermen would try to avoid catching redfish over a certain size because the larger fish are the egg layers. Stork feels the increased popularity of blackened redfish in Louisiana led to overfishing.
\\nStork learned how to fish for flounder through years of experience.\\xa0 He remembers wading for miles through the shallow waters of the Gulf trying to catch the elusive fish.
\\nIn a Podcast Extra, Stork talks about how during the winter months, his attention turned from fish to oysters.\\xa0 He describes how he gathered oysters and how he and his wife would clean and shuck them by the gallon.
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The BP Oil Spill of 2010 generated stress and financial hardships throughout the Gulf Coast fishing industry. In this episode, Daniel Nguyen of the Mary, Queen of Vietnam Community Development Corporation discusses how that stress affected the Vietnamese Fishing Community.
\\nAfter the BP Oil Spill, Congressman Joseph Cao formed a rapid response team to assist the Vietnamese fishing community. Team member Tuan Nguyen recalls those hectic days of community service and the cities they visited.
\\nWhile BP hired many out-of-work fishermen to assist with the clean-up following the oil spill of 2010, some Vietnamese fishermen were left out due to the language barrier. Peter Nguyen explains how he assisted those fishermen to find work during the recovery.
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\\nTuan Nguyen recounts with pride, the ways the rapid response team assisted, not only the Vietnamese community during the months following the oil spill, but the entire Gulf Coast.
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On April 20th, 2010, an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform, in the Gulf of Mexico, led to the largest crude oil spill in history. In this episode, commercial fisherman Peter Floyd recalls being confident that the Gulf Coast would survive. Joe Jewell of the Mississippi Dept. of Marine resources discusses the \\u201ctriple threat\\u201d faced by Coastal fishermen.
\\nAfter Hurricane Katrina, Crab fisherman Louie Lipps opened his own seafood restaurant in Frenier, Louisiana.\\xa0 Five years later, the BP oil spill brought a whole new set of challenges to the Gulf Coast seafood industry. Lipps remembers how his business was affected.
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According to Peter Floyd, optimism is trait inherent in all successful fishermen.\\xa0 He feels that dire predictions in the media did more harm to the seafood industry than the spill itself.
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For decades the Illinois Central Rail Road Maintenance Shop was one of the largest employers in McComb. In this episode, Ray Ward remembers signing on as a shop apprentice back in 1953. Ward recalls working in the car shop and the assembly line-like manner they used to rebuild the cars.
\\nIn order to save money and improve safety, Illionois Central offered cash rewards for employee suggestions at its McComb Maintenance Shop. Ward describes how the program worked and some suggestions he made for his job.
\\nPodcast Bonus: When he wasn\\u2019t working, Ward loved riding horses.\\xa0 He relates how one late night ride turned into a practical joke on his co-workers.
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Prior to the development of passenger jet planes, Americans travelled by train.\\xa0
\\nIn this episode, Sam Page remembers when the Panama Limited came through Summit, Mississippi for the first time.
\\nYears later, as ticket agent for the Illinois Central station in McComb, MS, Sam Page recalls being a very busy man selling tickets to destinations near and far. He discusses how many Mississippians rode The City of New Orleans to visit family members in Chicago, St. Louis and other northern cities.
\\nThe streamlined passenger train known as the Green Diamond ran from Chicago to St. Louis until 1947, when it was moved to Mississippi and renamed the Miss Lou.
\\nSam Page reminisces about riding the Miss Lou from McComb to New Orleans.
\\nPODCAST EXTRA: Page discusses his time with the railroad and the people who depended on the trains for transportation like legendary baseball pitcher Dizzy Dean.
\\n\\xa0PHOTO: The Illinois Central Green Diamond later moved to Jackson, MS and renamed the Miss Lou.
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Before there was Whole Foods, there was wild foods. As a young man, Alonzo Brandon of Port Gibson, hunted in order to help feed his family. In this episode he describes how he would outsmart the squirrels that tried to hide from him.
\\nAfter working all day, Alonzo Brandon would often go coon hunting. He recalls waiting until dawn some nights for a treed coon to finally come down.\\xa0 He also discusses his weapon of choice, the 22 caliber rifle.\\xa0
\\nBrandon\\u2019s family raised hogs as an additional source of protein.\\xa0 In this podcast extra, he remembers how the hogs would also hunt to supplement their diets.
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Dan McDaniel grew up in Bude, Mississippi. In this episode, he discusses why the town\\u2019s barbershop was central to the lives of so many. He also recalls the sawmill work whistle and the men walking home for lunch.
\\n\\xa0Today, most of us take indoor plumbing for granted.\\xa0 McDaniel remembers when plumbing was a luxury.
\\nBecause lumber was transported by train, all sawmill towns were connected by rail. McDaniel explains that back then, passenger trains were the most common way to travel.
\\nPhoto Credit: Gil Hoffman Collection
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Family history is our personal connection to the past. In this week\'s episode, Ethel Patton D\\u2019Anjou of Claiborne County tells the story of her great grandfather\\u2019s escape from slavery. She also shares the tale of how her great grandmother, a native American was spared from the Trail of Tears by her birth parents and ended up in Mound Bayou.
\\nPODCAST EXTRA: Alcorn University was founded in 1871 to educate the descendants of former slaves. Ethel Patton D\\u2019Anjou recounts her grandparent\\u2019s decision to come to Alcorn and open their own business. She hopes that her family\\u2019s history continues to provide inspiration for generations to come.
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In 1918, F.S. Wolcott began using Port Gibson as Winter Quarters for his Rabbit Foot Minstrel Show.\\xa0 In this episode, Jimmy Allen explains why Wolcott\\u2019s show was different from other Minstrels. He also describes how a typical minstrel show operated.
\\nAs a bookkeeper in his father\'s Port Gibson car dealership, Allen had first hand experience dealing with Wolcott. He learned that when it came to Wolcott, the squeaky wheel got the grease.Wolcott eventually formed a partnership with his competitor, F.C. Huntington.\\xa0 In this podcast extra, Allen recalls how that partnership led to a warrant for Wolcott\\u2019s arrest.
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Mardi Gras has been celebrated in Biloxi since 1883.\\xa0 In this episode, Jerry O\\u2019Keefe remembers the excitement of attending the parades as a boy in the 1930s. Later, as a young father in the 1940s, O\\u2019Keefe shared his love of Mardi Gras with his children.\\xa0
\\nAfter being elected Mayor of Biloxi in 1972, O\\u2019Keefe realized the city\\u2019s Mardi Gras fundraising system needed to be overhauled.\\xa0 He explains how that was accomplished and why Mardi Gras remains so important to the city\'s identity.
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During WWII, most African-American Soldiers served in support units away from the front lines. All that changed during the War in the Pacific where because of the close proxmity of the conflict, black soldiers found themselves fighting shoulder to shoulder with their white counterparts.\\xa0 In this episode, Lee Spearman of Bay Springs remembers the only objective was to stay alive.\\xa0\\xa0
\\nJournalist Ernie Pyle reported from the frontlines in Europe and the Pacific during WWII.\\xa0 Spearman was there when Pyle was hit by enemy fire.
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Rowan Clark of Bude was 16 years old when he got his first job in 1924. In this episode, he recalls being a water boy and delivering ice for the local icehouse. Like so many others left unemployed by the Great Depression, Clark rode the rails looking for work.\\xa0 He describes his journey across the country chasing rumors of job opportunities.
\\nClark was finally offered a job washing cars in New Orleans\\u2026at service station that was actually a front for rum runners!
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For Randy Yates, the Neshoba County Fair was a family tradition. In this episode, he explains why the fair was so important to his grandparents. One of the most vivid memories for Yates was the endless variety of food the fair had to offer.
\\nAccording to Yates, no one worked harder to prepare for the Neshoba County Fair than his grandfather.\\xa0 He remembers it being a year-long labor of love.
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Jackson has always enjoyed a wide selection of choices when it comes to dining out. In this episode, Randy Yates discusses the important role Greek restaurateurs played in Jackson\\u2019s culinary history. Yates began working for Primos Northgate restaurant as a college student.\\xa0 He remembers the large crowds and the places the staff would go between shifts.
\\nAfter Primos, Yates took a job working at Scrooge\\u2019s.\\xa0 He credits owner Bill Latham and Don Primos for teaching him some important job skills.\\xa0
\\nToday, Randy Yates is co-owner of the Ajax Diner, on the Square, in Oxford.
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The Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi was established in 1977.\\xa0 Its mission was to investigate, document, interpret and teach about the American South. In this episode, Ann Abadie recalls the Center\\u2019s first public event. Abadie also discusses the Center\\u2019s most ambitious project: The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.\\xa0 She explains how one section of that publication inspired them to form the Southern Foodways Alliance.
\\nNo study of Southern Culture would be complete without the Blues. Abadie remembers how Bill Ferris, the Center\\u2019s first director, brought Living Blues Magazine from Chicago to Oxford.
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Jim Anderson became the director of the First Regional Library, a five-county-library system based in Hernando, back in 1972. In this episode, he discusses the history of Mississippi\\u2019s oldest regional library.
\\nAccording to Anderson, the level of cooperation that exists between the state\\u2019s public, academic and special libraries is the result of programs sponsored by the Mississippi Library Commission. He looks back fondly on his thirty-six years with the First Regional Library.\\xa0 It\\u2019s a choice he recommends to young people searching for a fun and interesting career path.
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One of the star attractions of the New Orleans World\\u2019s Fair in 1984 was the space shuttle Enterprise.\\xa0 In this episode, Christine Harvey, a photographer at the Stennis Space Center, recalls documenting the shuttle\\u2019s journey from Mobile Bay to the Port of New Orleans.
\\nHarvey\\u2019s job was to ride a tugboat out to Algiers Point and photograph the arrival of the shuttle.\\xa0 It was an assignment that left her a little\\u2026queasy.
\\nFor Harvey, the arrival of the Enterprise was an emotional moment and one that she\\u2019ll never forget.\\xa0
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Growing up in Dixie Springs, Paul Ott Carruth had two great passions: the Great Outdoors and making music. So it came as a shock when in 1967, Carruth learned that hardwood trees around the Leaf River were being intentionally poisoned. At the time, Carruth was gaining recognition as a singer on a Hattiesburg TV show.\\xa0 He decided to combine his love of music and his love of nature to save those trees.
\\nIn this episode, Ott discusses how this decision led to a life devoted to protecting Mississippi\'s natural resources through songwriting. He also talks about his long association with the State Game and Fish Commission.
\\nPaul Ott Carruth\\u2019s weekly radio and TV show Listen to the Eagle continues to celebrate and promote The Great Mississippi Outdoors.
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In 1970, the Mississippi State Legislature passed the State Antiquities Act to preserve Mississippi historic sites and buildings for future generations. In this episode Elbert Hilliard, Director Emeritus of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History discusses the significance of the Antiquities Act.
\\nHilliard recalls their first preservation project and how in 1983, the Antiquities Act was amended to reflect the lessons learned in thirteen years of administering the law.
\\nHilliard points with pride to the many preservation successes made possible by the State Antiquities Act.
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Lou Mallory of Natchez grew up on a small farm in the Red Hills of Georgia.\\xa0 In the episode, she recalls how the family barely survived raising cotton, but were happy none the less.
\\nShe explains that her father used to make syrup from sugar cane as a way to earn extra money.\\xa0 She remembers eating a lot of syrup when there was not much else.
\\nMallory learned to sew her own dresses out of necessity. She became a seamstress as an adult and her tailor shop was a Natchez fixture for 45 years until she retired in 1998.
\\n(photo of sugar cane mill: The Florida Center for Instructional Technology, Univ. of South Florida)
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Evelyn Gandy of Hattiesburg came from a politically active family. In this episode, she discusses her decision to consider a career in politics at an early age.
\\nFrom 1947, when she was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, to 1959 when she became the first woman elected to statewide office as treasurer, Gandy always tried to make whatever office she held more responsive to the people.It was a philosophy she carried from her position as Insurance Commissioner to when she was elected the first woman Lt. Governor in 1975.
\\nGandy credits her success in office to a desire to work with others and a respect for her predecessors.
\\nEvelyn Gandy passed away on December 27, 2007.
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After being nominated and passed over seven times for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, former NFL punter, Ray Guy, was used to waiting by the phone.\\xa0 In this episode, he explains how the eighth time promised to be different.
\\nEnsconced in his New York hotel room on Super Bowl weekend, Guy found himself sitting by the phone once again, wondering if this would finally be the year he got the call.
\\nRay Guy was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on August 2nd, 2014. \\xa0He continues to work for his alma mater, Southern Miss.
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William Ray Guy came to Hattiesburg, MS to play football for Southern Miss in 1970.\\xa0 As punter for the Golden Eagles, Guy\\u2019s kicks were known for their distance and pinpoint accuracy.
\\nIn this episode, Guy discusses his decision to play for USM.\\xa0 He also explains why for him, strategy was just as important as power.
\\nIn the 14 seasons Guy punted for the Oakland Raiders, the term hang-time was coined to describe his high, booming kicks.\\xa0 He discusses why they were so high and the time he hit the Super Dome TV screen.
\\nRay Guy became the first punter to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in August of 2014.
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Chinese American, Professor John P Quon grew up living in the back of his family\\u2019s store in Moorhead, Mississippi. In this episode, he recalls slipping off and exploring the downtown area at a young age.
\\nEvery member of the Quon family was expected to help out in the store.\\xa0 Quon remembers learning how to make change at the age of five.\\xa0
\\nEventually, the Quon family decided to buy a home in Moorhead.\\xa0 He explains how an anonymous letter led his father to purchase a cotton farm instead.
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In 1964, Dr. John P. Quon was a student at Ole\\u2019 Miss when he proposed to his college sweetheart, Freida Seu. Both were from Chinese-American families living in the Delta. In this episode, Quon recalls the traditional engagement negotiations that followed.
\\nQuon describes the logistics involved in planning a wedding with an expected attendance of 1,200 family and friends. He walks us through the day\\u2019s events including the wedding ceremony and reception, as well as the banquet and traditional tea ceremony.
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King Evans was a teenager, living with his family on the Vickland Plantation in Nitta Yuma, Mississippi, during the Great Flood of 1927. In this episode, he recalls how the water continued to rise after the levee north of Greenville broke on the morning of April 21st. Evans also remembers the thousands of people displaced by the floodwaters and the desperate lengths they went to for shelter.\\xa0
\\nRacial tensions flared as mistreatment of blacks was reported in other places, but according to Evans, whites and blacks worked together in Sharkey County to insure fair distribution of food.
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In 1966 the faculty at the Mercy Hospital College of Nursing in Vicksburg recognized the need for a second nursing baccalaureate program in Mississippi.
\\nThis group of Catholic nuns, led by Dr. Elizabeth Harkins, was determined to establish a College of Nursing at USM. In this episode, retired instructor Jean Haspeslagh remembers Harkins as a force to be reckoned with.
\\nHaspeslagh explains how Harkins designed the College of Nursing\\u2019s Graduate program to be unique and cutting edge.
\\nAfter her retirement in 1980, Harkins continued to serve as Dean Emeritus until her death in 1997.\\xa0 Haspeslagh recalls that Harkins signed her last grant for the Sister\\u2019s of Mercy the day before she passes away.
\\nConstruction began on the new USM College of Nursing building in July, 2014.
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The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party was organized in 1964 as an alternative to the then-all-white Mississippi Democratic Party.
\\nThe MFDP, after holding a statewide election open to people of all colors, sent its delegates to the 1964 Democratic National Convention in an attempt to be recognized as the legitimate representatives of the State.
\\nIn this episode, Dr. Aaron Henry of Clarksdale remembers the long bus to Atlantic City, New Jersey and the crowded accommodations the delegates endured.
\\n\\xa0After impassioned speeches by Fannie Lou Hamer and Dr. Martin Luther King, President Lyndon Johnson offered to seat two of MFDP delegates with the Illinois delegation. Henry discusses they decision to decline that offer.
\\nHe also explains that even though they were not seated at the 1964 convention, their efforts lead to the reform of the Democratic Party.
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In 1964, as SNCC coordinators trained volunteers for the Mississippi Freedom Summer project, three others, Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman traveled to Philadelphia, MS to investigate a church burning.
\\nIn this episode, Cleveland Sellers recounts how he and seven other coordinators went in search of those three when they went missing. Sellers describes the extraordinary lengths their group went to, to avoid being spotted as they searched for their friends.
\\nAfter several days of searching through woods and empty buildings in the dead of night, Sellers\\u2019 group was forced to abandon their search.
\\nThe bodies of Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman were eventually found on August 4th, 1964.
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After attending a Freedom School as a high school student in the summer of \\u201964, Charleana Cobb of Blue Mountain was inspired to become active in the civil rights movement. In this episode, she recalls promoting a speech being given at her church\\xa0 by civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. Cobb remembers the thrill of hearing Hamer speak that night and the shock of being told that the church had burned to the ground the next morning.
\\nThat December, college students from Oberlin, Ohio came to Blue Mountain to rebuild the church as a project called Carpenters for Christmas. Cobb recalls how members of the community reacted to the sacrifice these Oberlin College students made in giving up their Christmas holiday.
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After attempting to register to vote, Fannie Lou Hamer was forced to leave the plantation where she had lived and worked for 18 years.\\xa0 In the episode, she explains how she became active in voter registration and the challenges they faced.
\\nPrior to passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Mississippi required voters to pass a literacy test and pay a poll tax in order to vote.\\xa0 Hamer recalls how she passed the test and the first time she was able to vote.
\\nHamer went on to become a leader in the Civil Rights movement and her speech at the Democratic National Convention in 1964 touched the nation. She reflects on her time in the spotlight and the friends she made along the way.
\\nFannie Lou Hamer passed away on March 14th, 1977.
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In 1962, Fannie Lou Hamer was a sharecropper\\u2019s wife, living on a plantation in Ruleville, Mississippi. In this episode, she recalls the first time she tried to register to vote.
\\nAfter leaving Indianola, the bus carrying Hamer\\u2019s group was pulled over by state and local law enforcement. She describes how they were forced to return to Indianola to face an assortment of trumped up charges.
\\nLater that same day when Hamer returned home, the owner of the plantation confronted her about attempting to register.\\xa0 She describes how she was forced to leave her home of 18 years that very night for refusing to withdraw her registration.
\\nThe plantation owner\'s harsh treatment of Hamer led her to become an inspirational figure in the Civil Rights movement.
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In 1964, Larry Rubin of Tacoma Park, Maryland came to Holly Springs to help black Mississippians register to vote. In this episode he explains how the state used literacy tests and intimidation to keep blacks from voting.
\\nA key goal of Freedom Summer was to register enough Freedom Democratic Party voters to have their delegates seated at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Rubin recalls the drudgery of knocking on doors and the thrill of watching the convention drama unfold on TV.
\\nRubin also reflects on the violence and intimidation that black Mississippians endured in order to secure the right to vote.
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In July of 1964, Sandra Adickes came to Hattiesburg to teach in a \\u201cFreedom School\\u201d as part of a civil rights campaign known as Freedom Summer. The Freedom Schools were intended to help black children overcome the disparity of education in Mississippi\\u2019s segregated school system.
\\nIn this episode, Adickes remembers her arrival and a 4th of July party sponsored by civil rights activist, Vernon Dahmer. She also describes a typical day in the Freedom School and how on the last day of Freedom School, the students decided to try and integrate the Hattiesburg Public Library.
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In June of 1964, a campaign was launched to educate black Mississippians and register them to vote. In the episode, Gloria Clark, a school teacher from Massachusetts, recalls riding a bus to Memphis to prepare for her role in the campaign called Freedom Summer. Clark remembers being assigned to Holly Springs and her initial reaction to that assignment.
\\nOn June 21st, three civil rights activists James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman disappeared after being released from a Neshoba County Jail.\\xa0 Their bodies were found two months later. Clark explains how their disappearance affected her.
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Like many Jewish children in the South, John Levingston of Cleveland, Mississippi attended kindergarten at a Christian church.\\xa0 In the episode, Levingston remembers how that led to some confusion for him.
\\n\\xa0Growing up in a Reform Congregation, Levingston did not participate in some traditional Jewish practices.\\xa0 He recalls his decision to learn Hebrew and have a bar mitzvah in his late thirties.
\\n\\xa0The once thriving Jewish population of the Delta has dwindled as younger generations have moved away.\\xa0 Levingston explains why he chose that as the topic of his bar mitzvah talk.
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Ray Pittman of Hattiesburg joined the Marines in 1942 as a demolition man. In this episode, he describes a typical demolition team and the dangerous jobs they performed.
\\nPittman\\u2019s team suffered heavy casualties during some of the worst battles in the Pacific theater. He recalls how a spare pistol saved his life on the island of Iwo Jima.
\\nPittman also remembers the day his friend Maxwell was killed while they were on a recon mission and how their actions prevented an ambush by the Japanese.
\\nThis D-Day, as we pause to remember our soldiers who fought so valiantly on the beaches at Normandy, let us also consider those brave men who were fighting on the other side of the world with this--our 400th episode of Mississippi Moments.
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George W. Owens of Pontotoc was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1936 when he met Icey Day, the state\\u2019s first blind legislator. Six years later, Owens helped Day pass legislation to establish the Mississippi Industries for the Blind.
\\nIn 1946, Owens began working as a vocational counselor for the M.I.B. In this episode, he recalls their humble beginnings and looks back with pride at how their efforts helped remove the stigma associated with blindness.
\\nDuring his 20 years as a Rehabilitation Consultant and 30 years as a member of the Lions Club, George Owens worked to better the lives of the blind and visually impaired.\\xa0 He passed away on March 3rd, 1975.
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Ellen McCarley grew up in Port Gibson, but sent summers with her family in rural Claiborne County. In this episode, she recalls helping her mother load the car with food and supplies for the weekly trip to the old homestead.
\\nMuch of their time was spent at a favorite swimming hole on Bayou Pierre creek. McCarley remembers catching rides there on her uncle\\u2019s Model T and eating tomato sandwiches.
\\nAlthough conditions were primitive by today\\u2019s standards, McCarley explains that summers in the country provided her with simple pleasures and cherished memories.
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Wendell Taylor of Gulfport became a Methodist minister in 1937. In this week\'s episode, he discusses Gulfside Assembly, a retreat for black Methodists located in Waveland.
\\nGulfside was founded in 1923 to provide spiritual, educational and recreational facilities to African-Americans who were denied access elsewhere because of segregation. Taylor remembers the outstanding church leaders who were educated at Gulfside.
\\nIn 2005, Gulfside Assembly was completely destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Plans to rebuild the historic site are pending.
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Reverend Harry Tartt grew up in North Gulfport in the 1920s. In this week\'s episode, he explains that at that time, the black community accepted segregation as a fact of life. Tartt recalls being made aware of lynching at a young age and how it was used to control the black community.
\\nIt was only after Tartt moved to Chicago to attend college that he began to see that there was a world beyond the Jim Crow system. He remembers feeling frustrated when he returned home with this new sense of awareness.
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Martin Huggins grew up on the family farm in the Biggersfield community near Rienzi. In this episode, he shares his memories of Grandpa Huggins including his remarkable way with the livestock.
\\nThis episode has it all: car-surfing goats, the dreaded cane of justice and 12 year old chauffeurs--you know, typical farm life.
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\\xa0\\xa0 Alfred Brown, Junior, grew up in the historic Soria City neighborhood of Gulfport during WWII. In this episode, he describes how his father sold fish in their back yard for extra money.
\\n\\xa0\\xa0 Brown remembers how Soria City residents took pride their neighborhood and looked out for each other.He recounts how his father would often give away fish to those in need.
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