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Amaze friends with fun facts about Mississippi

Lynn Lofton — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:19:48 +0000

You would not want to get into an argument or game about Mississippi trivia with D.K. White. The Jackson writer and collector of trivial facts would surely win. His lifelong hobby of researching and collecting obscure facts was published last October in a slim 96-page volume with a name almost longer than the book. For [...]

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Ballard writing again

MBJ Staff — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 22:01:29 +0000

Civil War author, professor and Mississippi State University archivist Michael B. Ballard has turned the page and begun writing another chapter in his own life-retirement. Ballard, whose most recent book “The Civil War in Mississippi: Major Campaigns and Battles” was released in 2011 by University Press of Mississippi, is an MSU doctoral graduate in history, [...]

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Winschel retiring from Vicksburg National Military Park

Associated Press — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:14:25 +0000

VICKSBURG — Terry Winschel came to Vicksburg for a job and says he found a home. Winschel was a 22-year-old seasonal ranger just a few months out of college when he reported to the Vicksburg National Military Park in 1977. This week he will retire, after 35 years in federal service, most of it spent [...]

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Cell tower plan dropped by AT&T

Associated Press — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:23:19 +0000

HERNANDO — Plans for a controversial AT&T cell tower south of Hernando have been dropped. AT&T, facing static from neighbors fearing harm to health and safety and from history buffs noting a nearby Civil War clash in 1863, has retreated. The site of the proposed tower was off Robertson Gin Road south of Hernando. DeSoto [...]

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Senators urge panel to approve battlefield expansion bill

MBJ Staff — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:21:19 +0000

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) are encouraging a Senate panel to advance their legislation authorizing the expansion of three units of the Vicksburg National Military Park. The National Park Subcommittee of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has received testimony on the Champion Hill, Port Gibson and Raymond [...]

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Alabama still collecting tax for Confederate vets

Associated Press — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:29:09 +0000

MOUNTAIN CREEK, Ala. — The last of the more than 60,000 Confederate veterans who came home to Alabama after the Civil War died generations ago, yet residents are still paying a tax that supported the neediest among them. Despite fire-and-brimstone opposition to taxes among many in a state that still has “Heart of Dixie” on [...]

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