Crossroads Weekly Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Serving Alcorn County
Miss Slugburger to be crowned For the first time ever, there will be a Miss Slugburger this year. There will even be a Wee Miss Slugburger. In the 27th year of the annual Slugburger Festival, event organizers will crown a Miss Slugburger. Main Street Corinth and Corinth Theatre-Arts are hosting the Miss Slugburger Festival pageant set for 10 a.m. on Saturday. “We were trying to figure out what events we could add to the festival to try to give folks something else to do on Saturday,” said Main Street board member Jennifer Timbes. “We all agreed hosting a pageant and having a Miss Slugburger would be perfect.”
The pageant will feature seven different categories from ages 0 to 21. Timbes said because the festival’s main stage will be setup for the World Championship Slugburger Eating contest later that day, the pageant will take place at CT-A’s Crossroads Playhouse. The pageant will feature seven different categories from ages 0 to 21. The categories include Wee Miss Slugburger for ages 0 to 23 months, Tiny Miss Slugburger for ages 2 to 3 years, Little Miss
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Slugburger for ages 4 to 6 years, Pettie Miss Slugburger for ages 7 to 9 years, Young Miss Slugburger for ages 10 to 13 years, Jr. Miss Slugburger for ages 1416 years and Miss Slugburger for ages 17-21 years. “The winner of each category will receive a special pageant crown with green jewels that represent the slug,” added Timbes. “Winners will also get to ride in this year’s Main Street Corinth Christmas Parade.” Entry fees are $30 per person and $10 for most photogenic. (For more information, contact Timbes at 214-384-5430 or slugburgerpageant@gmail. com. Registration forms can be viewed on Facebook by searching Miss Slugburger Festival.)
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TaNechi Temple
Women like to shop. Men like to nap. So apparently there was a compromise here between husband and wife, Bradley and Lisa Lambert of Alcorn County. Lisa snapped this photo outside the Green Door Trading Company in downtown Corinth of her “man working.”
Museum offers different look at writer Eudora Welty is known for painting a vivid portrait of the deep South in her writing. The writer also captured the region’s telling details through the camera lens. The Crossroads Museum is hosting the “Welty” traveling exhibit, which combines words and images of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner. It is the first appearance in north Mississippi of the collection, which was produced by the Museum Division of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. The 14 panels of photos and poems will show in Corinth through July 18. “Many people associate her with her stories, and some people don’t realize that she took a lot of photographs,” said Museum Director Brandy Steen. “These photos are all from the 1930s in Mississippi.” Welty traveled the state dur-
The Crossroads Museum is hosting the ‘Welty’ traveling exhibit, which combines words and images of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner. ing that decade as a publicist for the Works Progress Administration, photographing scenes and people that interested her. A few years later, her writing career took off and became her focus. In the 1970s, admirers of her work began to examine the relationship between the photos and her writing. The exhibited photos were
chosen from more than 1,200 Welty negatives on file at Archives and History. Passages from her writing are combined with the photos to illustrate how the images she captured would later inform her literary technique. The quoted passages are from books such as “The Wide Net,” “Delta Wedding” and “The Golden Apples.” While people are the main focus of the exhibited black and white photos, there are images of the Windsor ruins and the early days of the Natchez Trace. “We think it’s a nice, relaxing exhibit where people can enjoy these classic photos of another era in Mississippi,” said Steen. Hours at the depot museum at 221 North Fillmore Street are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Miss Mississippi United phones and supplies them to States TaNechi Temple of domestic violence victims for Corinth is Crossroads Weekly emergency use. “My goal is to start a local Person of the Week. The 2009 Corinth High chapter to get people talkSchool graduate traveled to ing about this and establish Washington, D.C. on June 30 resources to help, possibly in in order to compete in the Miss coordination with shelters in Mississippi,” said the Corinth United States competition. The pageant took place July native, who recently returned 1-6, drawing young women from a trip to Branson, Mo., where she had from across the opportuthe nation. nity to speak to In a world 60 to 80 girls based on suat Kids Across perficial apAmerica. pearances, Temple holds where beauty a Bachelor of is only skin Science degree deep, Temple in Psychology challenges from Missisthat notion. sippi State Uni“For me it’s TaNechi Temple versity. about being Miss Mississippi “I have a comfortable United States heart for helpwith who I am ing others who on the inside and embracing my flaws,” she are struggling, especially teenage girls,” she said. said. “I entered the Biggersville Using her platform, “Finding a Voice” to support and Beauty Revue and loved it. I empower victims of abuse, the have been doing pageants ever advocate has partnered with since,” said Temple. “I started R.A.I.N.N (Rape Abuse Incest my freshmen year in college National Network) to conquer with the Miss America orgathe shame and end the silence nization and competed in that of those in need of a champion. system for five years until I “R.A.I.N.N. is the larg- started looking for other sysest anti-assault network in tems and ran across the Miss the country,” said Temple United States organization.” In her spare time, the who also serves as a celebrity spokesperson for The National crowned title holder enjoys Coalition Against Domestic singing, traveling, cooking, Violence. “I chose this as my reading and talking to people platform because it hits home she encounters through her journeys. for me personally.” Temple is the daughter of “My position as Miss Mississippi U.S. allows me to pro- Anita and Johnathan Temple. She is currently an instrucmote different campaigns I’m tor for the Corinth High working on,” she added. The 23-year-old promotes School Warrior Band where the “Hope Lines” program, she teaches the Drum Majors which refurbishes donated cell and the Color Guard.
“I have a heart for helping others who are struggling, especially teenage girls.”
Verandah-Curlee House work on roof; new foundation completed The Siege and Battle of Corinth Commission hopes it has won the battle. The commission’s fight against deterioration of the Verandah-Curlee House took a favorable turn with the completion of roof and foundation work. A grant covered the structural restoration of the home. “I don’t think the house will move or fall in for at least another 100 years,” said Siege and Battle of Corinth Commission Chair Rosemary Williams. She hopes to see the home open again next spring or summer. In the new foundation, the piers under the porch are now positioned under the columns to prevent the sagging that occurred before.
Some work on the other buildings on the property is needed, and the public restrooms must be put back into use. Americans with Disabilities Act requirements must also be met before the home can reopen. “The piers all now have steel center cores,” said Williams. “It looks exactly like it did, but it’s stronger.” Before the interior work begins, some plumbing and electrical upgrades are needed. “We were shocked to learn that the electricity we’ve had all these years was the old knob and tube wiring from 1929,” said Williams. “We thought, we can’t do all of this work and have the house burn down.” Some work on the other buildings on the property is needed,
and the public restrooms must be put back into use. Americans with Disabilities Act requirements must also be met before the home can reopen. The inside of the home has held up well. “We do have some peeling paint,” said Williams. “We are so fortunate we never had a roof leak inside. We did have some moisture on the east wall.” For the interior design, “We want it to be more authentic to the period than it is now,” she said. “We’ve all tried through
the years ... but none of us are experts on this particular period and the type of furniture that was used in Tennessee and north Mississippi in fine homes at that time.” The interior work will be shaped by recommendations from Howard+Revis Design Services of Washington, D.C., and LCA Associates of Philadelphia. The two firms visited Corinth earlier this year to begin work on their suggestions for the house museum’s interpretation and interior design.
The interpretation plan is near completion. The commission has learned that the room referred to as the library was probably actually a bedroom. The interpretation will include a substantial focus on the war’s impact on civilian life. Rooms will be cordoned off, allowing visitors limited access to the rooms, with easels and placards presenting information. The rooms added to the home in 1929 and 1930 will display photos and information about the Curlee family and others who have lived in the home. When reopened, it will be available for events such as festivals and weddings on the grounds.