Mississippi Home Places

Author : Michael Ford
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820354406
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North Mississippi Homeplace written by Michael Ford and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1970s photographer and documentary filmmaker Michael Ford left graduate school and a college teaching position in Boston, Massachusetts, packed his young family into a van, and headed to rural Mississippi, where he spent the next four years recording everyday life through interviews, still photographs, and film. The project took him to Oxford (in Lafayette County), as well as to Marshall, Panola, and Tate Counties, a remote area north of Sardis Lake. His efforts resulted in the award-winning documentary film Homeplace (1975), but none of the still photographs from this time were ever published. With this illustrated volume, those photographs are now available and offer a valuable window onto the rural, local culture of northern Mississippi at that time. These moving photographs illustrate Ford's experiences as an apprentice to blacksmith Marion Randolph Hall, his visits to Hal Waldrip's General Store in Chulahoma, a day spent with AG Newsom and his crew making molasses, and Othar Turner's barbecues accompanied by traditional African American fife-and-drum music. They also capture the evocative landscape of the Mississippi hill country and the everyday lives of its residents. In 2013 Ford returned to his adopted homeplace, camera in hand, only to find that most everything had changed--or was gone. This photo essay project juxtaposes the rural Mississippi of the 1970s and the mid-2010s with Ford's personal reflections drawn from his journals, interviews, and archival notes.

Author : Elmo Howell
Publisher : Roscoe Langford
ISBN 13 : 9780962202605
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mississippi Home-places written by Elmo Howell and published by Roscoe Langford. This book was released on 1988 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notes on literature and history.

Author : Mary Carol Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578066742
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Houses of Mississippi written by Mary Carol Miller and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone searching for the architectural splendor of the antebellum South will happily find it in the 95 stunning, full-color photographs and fascinating descriptions of the 35 homes showcased in this beautiful, full-color book. Federal town houses, Greek revival plantation homes, and Italianate and Gothic villas recall the decades when Mississippi led the nation in architectural excellence. 1-57806-674-3$45.00 / University Press of Mississippi

Author : W. Ralph Eubanks
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1604699582
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Place Like Mississippi written by W. Ralph Eubanks and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously explored and valued as it's still being created.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir In A Place Like Mississippi,award-winning author and Mississippi native W. Ralph Eubanks treats us to a literary tour of the evocative landscapes that have inspired writers in every era. From Faulkner to Wright, Welty to Trethewey, Mississippi has been both a backdrop and a central character in some of the most compelling prose and poetry of modern literature. The journey unfolds on a winding path, touching the muddy Delta, the rolling Hill Country, down to the Gulf Coast, and all points between. In every corner of the state lie the settings that informed hundreds of iconic works. Immersing us in these spaces, Eubanks helps us understand that Mississippi is not only a state but a state of mind. Or as Faulkner is said to have observed, “To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.”

Author : Charline R. McCord
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617037664
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coming Home to Mississippi written by Charline R. McCord and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection, essayists examine their lives, their memories of Mississippi, the reasons they left the state, and what drew them back. They talk about how life differs and wears on you in the far-flung parts of our nation, and the qualities that make Mississippi unique. The writers from all corners of the state are as diverse as the regions from which they come. They are of different races, different life experiences, different talents, and different temperaments. Yet in acceding to the magical lure of Mississippi they are in many ways alike. Their roots are deep in the rich soil of this state, and they come from strong families that valued education and promoted an indomitable optimism. Successes stem from a passion, usually emerging early in life, that burns within them. But that passion is tempered, disciplined, encouraged, and influenced by the people around them, as well as the landscape and the history of their times. These essays give us a glimpse of the people and places that nurtured the young lives of the essayists and offered the values that directed them as they sought their dreams elsewhere. Often they found that opportunity was within their grasp in their home state and came back to realize their full potential. They came back, in some cases, to retire to a familiar place of pleasant memories, to family and to friends. They all have a love and respect for Mississippi and continue, back home, to use their talents to help make the state an even better place to live.

Author : Richard Grant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476709645
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dispatches from Pluto written by Richard Grant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Yorkers Grant and his girlfriend Mariah decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. This is their journey of discovery to a remote, isolated strip of land, three miles beyond the tiny community of Pluto. They learn to hunt, grow their own food, and fend off alligators, snakes, and varmints galore. They befriend an array of unforgettable local characters, capture the rich, extraordinary culture of the Delta, and delve deeply into the Delta's lingering racial tensions. As the nomadic Grant learns to settle down, he falls not just for his girlfriend but for the beguiling place they now call home.

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Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455610266
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pelican Guide to Old Homes of Mississippi written by and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pelican Guide to Old Homes of Mississippi Volume II: Columbus and the North features the following areas: Macon, Columbus, Starkville, Aberdeen, Corinth, Holly Springs, Oxford, Sardis, Como, Carrollton, Grenada, and the Greenville Delta. This volume includes all the essential information that will make the area a sightseer's delight: photographs of famous homes and landmarks, locations, hours open, significant features, notable history, and admission policies. Author Helen Kerr Kempe is a former associate editor of the Louisiana Almanac. She has also written The Pelican Guide to Old Homes of Mississippi Volume I Natchez and the South. Her Mississippi guides are significant contributions to the Pelican Guide Series.

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617034381
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Must See Mississippi: 50 Favorite Places written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fifty-site tour through the Magnolia State's historic locales traces the region's history across several centuries and explores how each contributes a unique piece of the state's rich and multilayered story.

Author : Fraiser, Jim
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455608249
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Majesty of the Mississippi Delta written by Fraiser, Jim and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the manner in which builders adapted to the whimsy of a river and the tides of technological, social, and political change while preserving the beauty and grandeur for which the South is known.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692917503
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Taste of Home Town written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: