Reprinted from Clarion Ledger Jackson MS April 19, 1962 Ancient Bones Give View Of Past To Digging Crew  Workers digging at the Pearl River ...

South's enduring past intrigues teacher By NELL LITTER FOCUS Staff Writer  Clarion Ledger June 15, 1983 Steve Anspach is a Northerner ch...

 Authors' suit charges racial bias in history book By CHAT BLAKEMAN Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer Tue, August 29, 1979 Is a ninth-grade cl...

Private schools take little interest in controversial text Clarion Ledger Thursday, January 22, 1981 By NELL LUTER - FOCUS Writer  Jackson...

I've been thinking of writing a Christmas story.  When I was little, this really remarkable woman gathered artistically leaning people a...

 Tomorrow's story for the Eudora Welty reading group is "A Visit of Charity" from "A Curtain of Green."  The story i...

Like many cities in the South, by 1963, Jackson, Mississippi, closed all of its public swimming pools rather than integrate them as required...

 Stage and dance floor, Lamar Theater/Disco, Downtown Jackson, 1979

 In August 1969, Hurricane Camille devastated the Mississippi Gulf Coast.  The destruction was unbelievable.  In some cases, shrimp boats we...

  A teacher at the Laurel Magnet School of the Arts and former winner of the Mississippi Educator of the Year, Landon Bryant is the creator ...

 We bring them home.  We raise them up.  We fill them up with as much spirit and love and learning as we can possibly find.  One day, you re...

I’ve been delaying working on this for a few days.  Sometimes, what I have to say makes me uncomfortable. My father had eight children. Four...

 When Lance Goss held auditions for a new play, it was his custom to tell the story of the play briefly for the students wishing to audition...

For quite a while now, I’ve been collecting the urban legends that emanate from students and employees at the University of Mississippi Medi...

 In 1978 I was fifteen years old.  It was the first year I ever fully experienced the darkness inside me.  My family fought through an extra...

 Ken Stribling messaged me last night with corrections about a piece I wrote at 3:00 a.m.  What would I do without friends who can’t sleep e...

If I'm going to write about what happened in the sixties and early seventies, I feel like I need to be able to at least understand and a...

I’m working on a project.  I don’t know what to call it yet.  Part of it might be “Lies My Mother Never Told Me.”  For this project, I’ve ma...