The town also boasts lots of churches, parks and athletic fields. Our mystery town has thriving businesses, a library, a medical clinic, and a pharmacy. A mercantile shop bearing the town’s name sells handmade bath soap named for the town plus Larry Monteith woodwork, Southern Candle Company candles, and Wilderness pottery. Our mystery town has access to abundant outdoor recreational opportunities, including Tishomingo State Park, the Natchez Trace Parkway, Bay Springs Lake on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, Pickwick Lake on the Tennessee River, and Coleman State Park. Crow’s Neck Environmental Center, which focuses on the beautiful flora of the area, is located west of town. Woodall Mountain, the highest elevation in Mississippi at 806 feet, can be found between this town and Iuka. Our mystery town holds a Townwide Yard Sale on the first Saturday in May and October; an annual Motorcycle Show and 100-Mile Ride on the first Saturday in June; and an annual Street Dance on the Saturday before July 4th. The Community Thanksgiving Service and annual Christmas Pa-
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER
rade are well-attended. A 1916 jazz standard by Spencer Williams bears the name of this town. Our mystery town boasts a stone quarry that is owned and operated by Bobbie and Clemmie Gresham. Gresham Stone not only mines the beautiful stone that is famous in the area, but Bobbie makes items from it that go all over the Southeast. He crafts birdbaths, benches, obelisks, turtles, frogs and small crosses, to name a few. He also does woodwork. “The quarry is a lot of hard work, but I enjoy meeting lots of interesting people,” he said. For more information, call 662-4387418. Farming in this area consists mainly of row crops and timber. Historic homes that preserve the architecture of a bygone day are numerous and can be found throughout the town. This town was winner of the 2009 Mississippi Municipalities League Award: City Spirit for Cities under 10,000. Name the town. A special thanks to Region 2 Women’s Chair Kay Perkins, Pam Bates, and Megan and Morgan Perkins (see group photo above with Bobbie Gresham at the stone quarry).
MISSISSIPPI FARM COUNTRY
Correct Guesses
Mail guesses to Solve the Mystery, Mississippi Farm Country, P.O. Box 1972, Jackson, MS 39215. You may also e-mail your guesses to: FarmCountry@MSFB.org. Please remember to include your name and address on the entry. Visit our Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation Web site at: www.msfb.org. When all correct guesses have been received, we will randomly draw 20 names. These 20 names will receive a prize and will be placed in the hat twice. At the end of the year, a winner will be drawn from all correct submissions. The winner will receive a Weekend Bed and Breakfast Trip, courtesy of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation. Families may submit only one entry. Federation staff members and their families are ineligible to participate in this contest. The deadline for submitting your entry is Sept. 30.
July/August
The correct answer for the July/August Solve the Mystery is Moorhead.
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