Book review: A PLACE CALLED HOME

Bob Franks' A PLACE CALLED HOME: Itawamba County Mississippi is reviewed at http://hillcountryhogsblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/place-called-home-itawamba-county.html

I'm giving a copy of A Place Called Home as a Christmas present this year --- and highly recommend you take a look at Franks' excellent coffee-table photo-book. A link is provided in the review to the Blurb Bookstore from which the book may be previewed and ordered.

Terry Thornton
Fulton, Mississippi

More Southern words and expressions

Part 18 of Southern expressions that will take the rag off the bush is posted at the following link: http://hillcountryhogsblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/part-18-southern-expressions-that-take.html

More Southern Expressions that "take the rag off the bush"

The continuing series Southern Expressions that "take the rag off the bush" from the Hill Country column at Monroe Journal includes the following two parts. Click on each URL to read.

Part 17, published in MOJO on 11-25,09 http://hillcountryhogsblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/part-17-southern-expressions-that-will.html

Part 16, published in MOJO on 11-18-09 http://hillcountryhogsblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/part-16-southern-expressions-that-will.html

For links to the other columns in this series, look to the left side bar of this page.

Chaistain Cemetery, Itawamba County, MS

An alphabetized list of names from the grave markers at Chaistain Cemetery, Itawamba County, Mississippi is available at http://hillcountryhogsblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/chastain-cemetery-alphabetical-list-of.html

Included with the names are years of birth and death and links to the photographs of the grave markers.

Maxey Cemetery, Itawamba County MS

An alphabetized list of names from the grave markers at Maxey Cemetery, Itawamba County, Mississippi is available at http://hillcountryhogsblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/maxey-cemetery-alphabetized-list-of.html

Included with the names are years of birth and death and links to the photographs of the grave markers.

James Wyatt Spencer, Grave marker dedication service

A photographic essay of the Grave Marking and Dedication Service for James Wyatt Spencer, 1840-1923, CSA, is posted at the following link: Click to read; click individual photographs for a larger image.
http://hillcountryhogsblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/grave-marking-and-dedication-service-of.html

More expressions that will take the rag off the bush

Part 15 of the continuing series, Southern expression that will 'take the rag off the bush' is posted at the following link: http://hillcountryhogsblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/part-15-southern-expressions-that-will.html Click link to learn about using the circa 1300 A.D. words, hisn, hern, and ourn --- words still heard in the Hill Country reflecting our long and lively heritage to 'Merrie Ole England.' Help keep these words in use by dropping them into a conversation with your friends soon!

Southern expressions that 'will take the rag off the bush' continues

Part 14 of the continuing series, Southern Expressions That Will Take The Rag Off The Bush, is my Hill Country column from 11-4-09, Monroe Journal. It can be read by clicking the link below.

Part 14, Southern expressions that 'will take the rag off the bush'

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A Poem for Hill Country: Richard Cory by Edwin A. Robinson

The weekend series, A Poem for Hill Country, continues with a memorable poem, Richard Cory, written by American poet Edwin Arlington Robinson. To read Richard Cory, click the link below.

Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson

Stories from the Hill Country continue to be posted

Hill Country CD Christmas ordering information

by Terry Thornton
email: hillcountrymonroecounty@gmail.com

Hill Country stories continue to be written and links to all the new articles are at Hill Country H.O.G.S. WebPress (History, Observations, Genealogy, and Stories of the Hill Country of Monroe County Mississippi), click to access.

Earlier stories of the Hill Country are available for purchase on a CD. Nine-hundred forty-seven (947) older articles from Hill Country are included on the CD, Hill Country of Monroe County Mississippi Volume 1. Click here to order. Click here to view the table of contents of Hill County Volume 1 CD.

For other CDs available, see information at left side-bar of this page (click to view).

Christmas orders should be received by December 1 to assure delivery by December 24.

The Ridings Family: Murdered at Bigby Fork, 1880

Additional information about the December 1880 murders of three members of the H.B. Ridings family has been posted at the article The Ridings Family Murders, 1880, Monroe County, Mississippi (click to read).

More southern words and expressions

by Terry Thornton
email: hillcountrymonroecounty@gmail.com

Three of my recent Hill Country columns from the Monroe Journal are now posted on-line. Click the links below to read the columns from the past three Wednesdays at MOJO's Hill County series, Southern Expressions That Will Take The Rag Off the Bush:

Part 11 published 10-14-09

Part 12 published 10-21-09

Part 13 published 10-28-09

Previous columns are linked in the left sidebar. The twenty-two part series will continue through the end of the year.

The Monroe Journal is the weekly newspaper of Monroe County, Mississippi, with offices in Amory.

Hill Country Places

The series, Hill Country Places, resumes with a brief discussion of several west-of-the river sites of Monroe County. The article, Rubby's Hog Craul, The Peck Mill, Eureka, Bigby Fork, and Nettleton may be read by clicking here.

Mississippi Hill Country Heritage Day: SUNDAY

to

Mississippi Hill Country Heritage Day

A benefit for the preservation of The Cedars

(Cates-Gaither House)

Sunday, October 18, 2009, 2 - 5 PM

211 Main Street

Fulton, Mississippi

An affiliate of Create Foundation and the first preservation project of

Preserving Itawamba County's Heritage

Tour the house and grounds.

Music: Appalachian dulcimers, reed organ, bluegrass banjo and fiddle and guitar, vocalist/composer Eddie Moore, music legend Kay Bain, and the Stricklands

Food: Chicken and dumplings, greens, corn-on-the cob, soup, cornbread, bread pudding, sweet tea and lemonade

Activities: Whittling, churning butter, washing clothes, shucking and shelling corn, spinning yarn, tatting, spool knitting, crocheting, basket making, leather working

Games: pitching washers and horseshoes, sack races, domino and checkers, shooting marbles

Antique cars: Scheduled: Early Ford and a 1933 Cadillac Fleetwood.

. . . and more!

Tickets may be purchased at the front entrance of The Cedars

Adults: $15

Students: $ 10

Under five years of age: free

All tax-deductive donations are appreciated and welcomed to help preserved The Cedars (Cates-Gaither House), Fulton's second oldest surviving residence. Make your checks payable to

Create-Gaither House Project Fund

Help save part of Fulton's heritage --- join Preserving Itawamba County's Heritage, a community-action group pledged to the preservation, relocation, and renovation of The Cedars.

Photo-advertisement courtesy of Bob Franks, ICDC, Fulton, MS.

Nobel Peace Prize and When Pigs Fly: A Hill Country Hootie Hoo

The Saturday series, A Hill Country Hootie Hoo, today offers up an opinion about the Nobel Peace Prize and When Pigs Fly. Click the following link to read:

A Hill Country Hootie Hoo:

The Nobel Peace Prize and When Pigs Fly

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A Hill Country Family: Ben and Dovie Greenwood, George, Tom and Kate of Nettleton, 1944

The series, A Hill Country Family, examines a special bill considered in the U.S. House of Representative and the U.S. Senate for the benefit of the Greenwood family of Nettleton, Mississippi. Much of the information within the bill and its attachments of affidavits reads like a time capsule for life in the Hill Country during the 1940s. The tragic accident involving Ben and Dovie Greenwood, George, Tom, and Kate on the evening of March 16, 1944, just outside of Nettleton makes for an interesting lesson about our history and heritage. To read, click the following link:

A Hill Country Family:

Ben and Dovie Greenwood,

George, Tom, and Kate of Nettleton, 1944

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Hill Country Column from MONROE JOURNAL

The series, Southern expressions that will take the rag off the bush, continues at the Hill Country column at Monroe Journal. Click below to read the Part 10 of the series.

Southern Expressions that will take the rag off the bush:

Part 10.

Words and Phrases From the Hill Country

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A Hill Country Place: Walls Tan Yard Post Office

The series, Hill Country Places, present information to help locate the position of Walls Tan Yard Post Office, Monroe County, Mississippi. A postal route map from 1839 states that Walls Tan Yard Post Office is 12 miles east of Cotton Gin Port Post Office and 7 miles north of Quincy Post Office.

Twelve miles east of Cotton Gin Port and seven miles north of Old Quincy would place Walls Tan Yard post office in the heart of Hill Country.

But where is that spot? To view the maps and read the brief discussion, click the following link:

A Hill Country Place:

Walls Tan Yard Post Office

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A Hill Country Story Told in Stone: Daniel Wayne Bird

The series, A Hill Country Story Told in Stone, today looks at the grave marker at Sartor Cemetery and provides information about Daniel Wayne Bird. A descendant of one of the first family's of Hill Country, Dan Bird was the first Monroe County serviceman killed in World War 1. His story is told at the following link:

A Hill Country Story Told in Stone:

DANIEL WAYNE BIRD

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My Hill Country Assurances from working --- some jobs I've done

The weekly series, My Hill Country Assurances, takes a look at work and at some of the jobs I had during my most formative years. To read click the links below:

My Hill Country Assurances

From Working --- Jobs I've Done

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Left click image for a larger view

A Poem for Hill Country: Another poem by Sam Walter Foss

The continuing series, A Poem for Hill Country, today features another work by American poet Sam Walter Foss. Click the link below to read

A Poem for Hill Country

The Man Who Brings Up The Rear End

by Sam Walter Foss

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A Hill Country Hootie Hoo

Today A Hill Country Hootie Hoo announces that I, yes me, Terry Thornton, will be performing a short program of music on the almost 125 year-old portable folding Stockton Reed Organ on Sunday afternoon, October 18, 2009. The event is Mississippi Hill Country Heritage Day and all proceeds benefit the preservation efforts to relocate and to restore The Cedars, Fulton's second oldest surviving residence. And Hootie Hoo today republishes an article with photographs of the Stockton Reed Organ.

Where: 211 Main Street, Fulton, Mississippi

Event: Mississippi Hill Country Heritage Day

Sunday, October 18, 2009, 2 - 5 PM. Activities include tours and information of the house, displays, games, tasting of period foods, music and more

Event ticket prices: $15 for adults; $10 for students; and little kids free

Now, to read the article about the Stockton Portable Reed Organ from Monroe County, click the following link:

A Hill Country Hootie Hoo:

Me, Performing on the Portable Stockton Reed Organ

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