Mississippi PRIDE

Welcome to my Mississippi Pride web page!

Turn up your sound! The song you are listening to is
'From Dixie With Love' performed by
the Pride of the South Marching Band.

I have been contemplating making this page for quite some time and after
some research and interesting discoveries, I decided to go ahead and create!

I currently live in Alabama but I grew up in Oxford, Mississippi.
Mostly because I grew up there and contrary to some beliefs, I grew
up educated and we had indoor bathrooms. It is comical to see how many
people have negative things to say about the South when, in fact, they
have never set one foot on Southern soil. I guess that old saying about the South being
so full of hospitality is really true.

I grew up in the country along with my grandparents, mother and little brother.
My childhood was filled with fond memories. We lived in a white house on
Lizard Road in Lafayette County, Mississippi. We played outside barefooted
on hot summer days, rode bikes, caught lizards and frogs and climbed trees.
The terrain consisted of red clay dirt, an abundance of pine trees and
I must not leave out the KUDZU! :::chuckle:::
I was pretty much a tom boy to some extent but also enjoyed wearing pretty
dresses to church every Sunday. I was fortunate to have a family that
believed in God and taught my brother and myself those beliefs.

I really love the Southern cuisine too! We always had fresh vegetables
from our garden such as okra, tomatoes, purple hull peas, butter beans,
corn, cabbage, and we even made jelly from plum trees we had in our
back yard. And YES, I love grits! HEHE But NOT with syrup on them!
I prefer butter, salt and pepper on mine Ü

Mississippi is chock full of wonderful history..some good and some
not so good, but Mississippi is certainly known for some fabulous things.
One of which being Blues Music!

Robert Johnson is buried in MS--
one of the greatest blues men that ever lived. The events surrounding
his death are debated to this day.

William Faulkner lived in Oxford in an estate called Rowan Oak.
The Nobel Prize-winning novelist and short story writer is acclaimed throughout
the world as one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers.

For one person's "epinion" about Faulkner's hometown today,
read "Spittin' Off The Balcony in Oxford, Mississippi" at epinions.com.

John Grisham is another famous writer from Oxford.
Several of his books have been made into movies...
The Client and The Firm are two of those.
I was fortunate enough to meet him at one of his book signings
and he was a very pleasant man.

You haven't been to Oxford unless you've paid a visit to the Hoka Theater.

Here are some facts about Mississippi that you might enjoy:

State Flower is the Magnolia

Capitol: Jackson

Date of Statehood: December 10, 1817

Population: 2,752,092 (1998 estimation)

Primary Agriculture:
Most of Mississippi's acreage is devoted to soybeans but cotton is the largest cash crop.
Mississippi ranks third in the nation in cotton production. The state's farmlands
yield important harvests of corn, peanuts, pecans, rice, sugar cane, sweet potatoes,
soybeans, and food grains as well as poultry, eggs, meat animals, dairy products, feed crops,
and horticultural crops.

Primary Industry:
Mississippi remains the world's leading producer of pond-raised catfish.
Mississippi boasts 100,000 of the 140,000 total acres nationwide of catfish ponds.

Gemstone: Petrified wood

Bird: Mockingbird

Animal: White-tailed deer and the Red fox

Tree: Magnolia

Motto: Virtute et armis (By valor and arms)

Oxford, MS

The University of Mississippi

Kim's Confederacy Page

Jackson Mississippi

Southern Kudzu

The Robert Johnson Notebooks

Delta Blues Education Program

Robert Johnson's Death Certificate

John Grisham Online