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Features Editor’s Letter pg. 8 Fast Food pg. 11 Warmer weather brings opportunity for front porch brunch.

Home How-to pg. 21 Herb gardens can be grown anywhere with a little sun.

Hit the Road pg. 27 Midtown Memphis is a hot spot often overlooked by Beale Street’s popularity.

Burger Joints • pg. 14

Sprinkled through the region are restaurants specializing in one thing: burgers.

Rising From the Debris • pg. 23

The April 28 tornado took parts of the Reed Mansion with it and now, nearly a year later, the owners reflect on how far they’ve come.

Monroeville • pg. 31

Made famous by Harper Lee’s book “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Monroeville is a one-of-a-kind tourist destination.

Fact Sheet pg. 34 A local dentist and his mother embrace multiple cultures while calling Northeast Mississippi home.

In The Know pg. 56 Building canoes is a hobby for this Amory resident and he does it well.

Joe Atkins • pg. 38

This college professor has his first novel under his belt and the journey to get here hasn’t been easy.

Downtown Living, Tupelo Style • pg. 43

Some may not know apartments are above local businesses downtown, but there are and they embody small city living.

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Editor’s Letter

With the April 28 tornado anniversary upon us, I have been reflecting on how quickly some had their physical home damaged or destroyed. I was renting in Joyner at the time the tornado hit and as many did that day, I found what I considered home with a huge tree on top of it. I haven’t really taken the time to process the events of that day and week. I consider myself lucky. I was essentially able to walk away with no real responsibility other than my belongings inside the damaged home. My neighbors didn’t have that luxury. But the experience gives perspective to what home really is. It isn’t a physical structure. It is the people in it or the meaningful treasures that sit inside it and in my case, it includes my angel cat and monster dog I have mentioned before. Every now and then, I’ll drive through Joyner or other damaged areas to see the progress. The house I so quickly evacuated has become home for somone else and fortunately, it has a new roof. Another home with a new roof is what many of us know as the Reed Mansion. Buzzy and Catherine’s story on page 23 is one beginning with destruction and ending with recovery. There are obvious differences in the old and the new, notably, the beautiful trees that surrounded the home are no longer standing.

But their story is inspiring. And then there is Melissa Ratliff who wanted a more up-beat pace and found it downtown in an apartment above Nautical Whimsey (pg.43). When I walked in, the exposed brick and urban detail caught my eye. And she can see downtown happenings right outside her window. If you are settled in your home, you may want to brighten things up with an herb garden (pg.21). I decided my kitchen window had enough sunlight to support one and I’ve already used rosemary in one of my chicken dishes. It was so rewarding cutting the herb right off the plant. The story on Davis Lovelace and his art of building canoes is one of my favorites (pg.56). He sets up shop at his home in Amory, Miss. We live among such talented people and I’m just glad Mud & Magnolias is able to tell their stories. I hope you enjoy reading them.

If you have any thoughts or concerns about this issue, please email me at editor@mudandmag.com.

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Baked Egg Boats Ingredients: 2 baguettes 3 eggs about 3 tablespoons heavy cream 3 slices of bacon, fried until crisp 1/4 cup swiss cheese (or any cheese you prefer) 1 to 2 green onions, thinly sliced salt and pepper to taste Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut a deep “V� through the tops of each baguette, leaving 1/2 inch of the bread on the bottom. Remove the extra bread. Beat together the eggs and cream. Then add the bacon, green onions and cheese.

Season with salt and pepper. Pour the mixture evenly into each baguette and place onto a baking sheet. Bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown. Slice to serve.

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BURGER JOINTS

At smith. restaurant in downtown Corinth, it’s the bacon. At Bill’s Hamburgers in Amory, it’s the freshly-ground-every-day meat. At Johnnie’s Bar-B-Que DriveIn in Tupelo, it’s the recipe that hasn’t changed for almost 70 years.

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cross Northeast Mississippi, local family-run restaurants make and serve some of the best hamburgers around. Devoted fans drive for miles to taste their favorites, while satisfied regulars wander in and order their usual with a simple nod to the grill cook.

“It’s a hamburger. It’s American!” said Russell Smith, owner of the 2-yearold smith. and the almost-40-year-old Russell’s Beef House. “Everybody loves hamburgers.”

A popular lunch choice at smith., hamburgers there are made from locally ground meat. The burger mixture includes steak trimmings such as sirloin and ribeye from both restaurants, plus 30 percent bacon for subtle smokiness and extra-napkins juiciness.

Smith. burgers are a thick 8 ounces served on sourdough buns with mustard, lettuce, tomato and house-made pickles.

Want cheese? The cooks will do more than slap a slice of American on top – although soft melty American cheese on an expertly cooked burger is a pretty good culinary treat.

“You gotta have cheese,” Smith said.

“It changes the taste. We do different things with different cheeses – cheddar, American, swiss, bleu, pimiento. We’ll change the toppings to go with the cheese.”

As much as Smith likes his own burgers, he admits to another favorite in town.

“Abe’s burgers are best,” Smith said.

“They’re thin, and the two 2-ounce patties stacked together with cheese is so good. I grew up eating Abe’s burgers.”

At Abe’s Grill, on U.S. 72 West in Corinth, owner and chief cook Abe Whitfield smiled and nodded when he heard about Smith’s compliments.

“We are the best,” he said in matterof-fact agreement. “After all, I’ve been cooking for 53 years, 41 of those years here on this highway. You can’t get a burger like ours anywhere else.”

On the site of Corona College, a female school burned during the Civil War, Abe’s is still crowded after the noon rush.

Customers sit at the counter or wait by the door for takeout as Whitfield; his son, Ryan; and his wife, Terri, work.

“What makes our food so special?” Abe Whitfield repeated as he put hand-cut fries in the fryer, poured a glass of water

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and toted up a bill from memory. “We use local and fresh food, nothing bagged or frozen. You see us cook in front of you so you know it’s fresh.”

Freshness also is key at Bill’s Hamburgers in Amory, an 86-year-old institution owned by Reid Wilkerson and managed by his son James Wilkerson, who worked at the diner even before his father bought it in 2002.

“We grind our hamburger meat inhouse every morning,” James Wilkerson said. “We try our hardest to process it every day. If we have to double up, you can taste the difference. Fresh really is the best.”

Hamburger lovers must agree. Bill’s sells 200 to 300 burgers on a weekday and 500 to 1,000 most Saturdays. And all of those burgers are ordered in one of two ways: “with” – which means mustard and onions – or “without” – plain patty on a bun.

“That goes back to the 1920s, when refrigeration was rare and the small business owner couldn’t afford it. Mustard and onions didn’t need refrigeration, so that’s what the original owner used,” Wilkerson said. “We did add cheese, mayonnaise and ketchup about 20 years 16

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ago, just enough to satisfy folks. We still get people amazed that we don’t offer lettuce and tomato, but after they try it, they’re glad those things aren’t on it.

Wilkerson’s favorite toppings are cheese, mayonnaise and the house-made hot sauce.

His other favorite thing is talking to customers.

“I really like talking to people in the community,” he said. “I love hearing stories from old-timers about how things used to be and how they can come in here and get the same experience they’ve always had.”

And then there is the not-to-be-missed Latham’s Hamburger Inn, 106 Main St., New Albany. Open since 1934 and known for its slugburgers, this family-owned and family-run landmark also serves top-ranked burgers. Note the original counter as well as seating from the inn’s first location – a railroad dining car – and soft-drinks stored in a vintage Coca-Cola cooler.

Another longtime community spot known for burgers is Johnnie’s Bar-B-Q Drive In in Tupelo, where tourists vie to sit at the booth where a young Elvis Presley sat and ordered the same burgers

on the menu today.

“We must be doing something right because we’ve been using the same recipe for almost 70 years,” said owner Don Knight, who bought the business in 1977.

Johnnie’s serves 4-ounce freshly ground patties on 4-inch round buns with onions, pickles and mustard.

“That with one of our chocolate or strawberry shakes, there’s nothing better,” Knight said.

It’s the grilled deliciousness and variety of free toppings that bring customers to The Stables Downtown Grill, in Tupelo, said employee Tangie Blankenship.

“We sell a bunch of burgers. They’re good and we’re known for them,” she said. “We’ve got great cooks, and you can get everything you want on your burger for free.”

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It’s taken the Mizes 10 months to be able to move back “onto the hill” into the Reed family home. The stately Colonial Georgian at 1520 McCullough Boulevard sits at the intersection of three neighborhoods – Joyner, Lynn Circle, and Rogers Drive.

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hen the powerful twister ripped through Tupelo a year ago, this area bore the brunt of the damage. The 5,300-square-feet house, the Mizes’ home since 1998, found itself squarely in the path of the EF-3 tornado.

“It looked like a wedding cake with the top cut off,” says 59-year-old Paul “Buzzy” Mize, a partner at an insurance agency, describing the look of the missing roof and pediment. His wife, 58-year-old Catherine Reed Mize, works as a buyer and assistant manager for the gift shop and book store at the family’s business – the department store Reed’s

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When it was all over, the house’s façade was gone. Besides the entire stone front porch and the transom above the front door, the twister took with it the 21-foot-tall Ionic columns, four in all, scattering their pieces up to a quarter of a mile away. A brick chimney had toppled into the backyard.

Just 24 hours earlier, the couple had arrived in Half Moon Bay in San Mateo County, California, for an insurance conference and a spot of calm. Instead, the Mizes found themselves monitoring obsessively the weather forecast and the line of deadly storms moving through Mississippi that fateful Monday.

“Suddenly Twitter blew up and then we started getting texts that our house had been hit,” Paul remembers.

In the twister’s aftermath, rain gushed into the roofless house, past the broken windows and through the ceilings, dripping down the chandeliers and fixtures, threatening to mar the antique furniture, rugs, and the house’s original quarter-sawn oak wood flooring. In the meantime, the Mizes were racing back home, on the first redeye to Memphis.

Before they returned the next day, one of the couple’s adult sons, Paul Mize III, and Catherine’s brother, Jack Reed Jr., led a group of friends that

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had busied themselves with moving furniture away from the large puddles into the dry library, and taking valuable artwork off the wet plaster walls, while collecting family photos and mementos.

Reached by phone from California, Nettleton-based contractor Glyn Hester rushed to the scene.

Sheer chaos greeted the Mizes.

Hundreds of beautiful mature trees – oak, hickory, pecan, pine, and sweet gum – now lay mangled, twisted, and decapitated. The small lake was filled with so many uprooted trees that it had to be drained. Glass shards and tornado debris were everywhere. But this was not the time to be overwhelmed. “It was hard to believe that no one had died; nobody we knew was injured.

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meant we could turn to the task at hand and look at what had to be done.” Adds her husband, “We started immediately with a to-do list.”

While smaller homes on the other side of McCullough were completely demolished, some lifted off their slabs and tossed like dollhouses, surprisingly the center of the Reed house had held steady, as had the wrought-iron porch to the right.

The house had been constructed from 1939 to 1941 for Catherine’s grandfather, Bob Reed, founder of the general dry goods store Reed’s in Tupelo in 1905, and his wife Hoyt.

Barely three years before construction started, the couple’s home on Church Street had been severely damaged by the deadly 1936 tornado.

But the new house on the hill was to be different, fortified by metal connectors, large bolts, and cables that held the brick structure together.

Tupelo-based Leake & Goodlett served as the construction company.

Incidentally, the Memphis-based architect was the very same one who had designed Elvis’s Graceland long before the King of Rock ‘n Roll bought his famous Memphis home.

Their foresight, sharpened by the 1936 killer tornado, safeguarded the main structure three quarters of a century later, engineers told the Mizes.

“I think we really have that tornado to thank for that we made it through this one,” says Catherine. “Through this whole process we have met so many people who’ve been affected by the

tornado, some much worse than we.

And they picked themselves up by the bootstraps. I admire that.”

The large property contains two more houses: that of Catherine’s brother Scott Reed and his family, and the house of her 90-year-old father Jack Reed Sr. Both homes were damaged during the twister.

For Reed Sr., who was not in his house at the time, it became the second tornado to hit home. When his parents’ house on Church Street was struck by the EF-5 in 1936 that killed 216 people in Tupelo, he was just an 11-year-old boy.

Fast forward to 2015: Rebuilding the Colonial Georgian proved not to be a straightforward undertaking.

For starters, the Mizes did not possess building plans for the old

house. Instead, Catherine scoured family albums for snaps of the house, assembling them in a green binder.

Contractor Hester used these photos to figure out shape, placement, color, and materials used for the dormers, the pitch of the original roof, the design of the dental molding and outside trim.

When the pictures did not suffice, Hester sifted for clues among the scattered debris. To Paul it was nothing short of “architectural forensics.”

One of those little forensic victories was the discovery of the two wroughtiron vent covers that belonged high up in the ceiling over the front porch.

Catherine had discovered them back in the woods.

“I am just so proud of that. I don’t really know why,” Catherine says about

her unexpected find.

Hester located a company that was able to straighten and restore them.

Ten months later things are beginning to fall into place. While the couple has moved back in, boxes remain to be unpacked.

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Catherine and Buzzy Mize are finally back in their home the April 28 tornado damaged 10 months ago.

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he heartbeat of Memphis, a city known for its music, barbecue and the all-night party on Beale Street, has always been Midtown. The neighborhoods and eclectic businesses and restaurants nestled between downtown’s high rises and the suburbs east of town are home to an unmatched number of theaters, galleries, music venues, bars and restaurants.

Anyone who has driven through Memphis has seen a bumper sticker proclaiming, “Midtown is Memphis.”

Starting in the medical district, east of 240 North and going all the way to East Parkway, Midtown is where Memphians have always gone out to play.

“There is such a variety of things you can do,” said Holly Whitfield, Midtown

By JB Clark resident, content strategist at the Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau and writer/ editor of I Love Memphis. “We can do everything from drinking, eating, music, theater and sports. There are galleries and boutiques, and it’s all pretty accessible.”

Overton Square, the newly polished and more visible block of restaurants, shops and theaters, was developed in 1969 when the first non-New York City T.G.I Friday’s opened on the block and served as an anchor for other shops and restaurants through the ‘70s.

“It was a hot spot, and lots of people who spend time there now have parents who did, too,” Whitfield said.

The block is now anchored by four theaters: Theatre Works, Circuit Playhouse, Playhouse on the Square and Hattiloo Theatre, one of the few free-standing, independently black theaters in America.

If Whitfield has guests who have already had their Elvis, Beale Street experience, she takes them to Midtown’s Overton Square.

“We have drinks at Babalu first, and if the weather is nice, we sit at their indoor/ outdoor bar,” Whitfield said. “They have great margaritas. After that, my dinner pick is Second Line.”

Second Line is James Beard Awardwinning Chef Kelly English’s casual dining concept known for its cocktails and po’boys.

“It’s what English grew up eating and cooking in New Orleans, and it’s great because you get to experience what one of the best chefs is like without having to wait for a reservation at his other restaurant, Restaurant Iris.”

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“If you want to watch a Grizzlies game go to Next Door, they have tons of local beer.

If you want to see some of the best local bands — anything from Amy LaVere to John Paul Keith or the Memphis Dawls — they will play at Bar DKDC.” The Cooper-Young neighborhood has always been known for eclectic crowds and good food, but with the addition of farmto-table restaurants like The Beauty Shop and Sweet Grass in the past five years, the neighborhood’s food culture has elevated.

Bar DKDC is a very comfortable restaurant and bar with an impressive rum selection, Caribbean and Asian-inspired menu and an atmosphere that makes patrons forget they aren’t at home.

Next Door has the welcoming feel of a favorite neighborhood bar but with a very knowledgeable staff and farm-to-table foods.

“We tried to create an upscale sports bar feel. You get an upscale feel in an elegant atmosphere but at the same time you can yell for your team on the 10 TVs we have on the wall,” said Johnny Lawrence, general manager at Sweet Grass and Next Door.

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same guys cooking nachos at Next Door.”

Lawrence said most of the bar’s regulars are Memphis Grizzlies season ticket holders, which means the bar is exciting when the team is playing away games.

The neighborhood has plenty of boutique shopping, a quaint used bookstore and lots of food options at every price point. There’s even a storefront adoption agency for cats.

“Cooper-Young is so laid-back,” Lawrence said. “This is where the locals hang out. We don’t go downtown that often, we’re here and we have people of all ages hanging out here. This is where you can truly experience Memphis with Memphis people.”

Midtown is home to one of Memphis’s four breweries, Made in Memphis. Their taproom, located in Cooper-Young, is open on Friday nights and is usually accompanied by a food truck parked out front.

Young Avenue Deli has long been the center of the Cooper-Young neighborhood, located at the intersection of Cooper Street and Young Avenue.

“We’re proud of our eclectic group of people,” said Young Avenue Deli General Manager Tessa Pascover of the neighborhood. “We have college students, young families, people who moved here for retirement or people who have always been here. They know they’ll get friendly faces, good food and interesting conversation. It’s

a place where strangers become friends. It’s the heartbeat of the city.”

Pascover said the neighborhood’s restaurant employees are always trying to keep visitors happy and make sure they return. “We all communicate and share our customers. If Sweet Grass has a wait or someone over there wants to hear live music, they’ll tell them about us,” she said. “People move here because of these businesses and this community.”

Anyone looking to spend an afternoon shopping and perusing art galleries followed by a night of decadent restaurant and bar hopping would be remiss to overlook Memphis’ Midtown.

There is enough happening to keep visitors coming back again and again without ever having to repeat the same experience — but that’s not to say they won’t want to.

Whitfield said all visitors should be sure and tell their waitstaff, bartenders and the people around them they are visiting.

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MONROEVILLE “To Kill a Mockingbird” impacted book lovers when it came out in 1960, and the movie adaptation, starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, debuted just two years later, skyrocketing it into a national phenomenon and bringing popularity to Monroe County, Alabama, the town of Monroeville, and the courthouse there.

With the recent announcement of a new novel written by Harper Lee being released this summer, talks of “To Kill a Mockingbird” and what it stands for have come back into the forefront.

By Lindsay Mott It’s something that Monroe County, Alabama, has never forgotten. Each spring, the Old Courthouse Museum still presents the second act of the Mockingbird Players’ production of the play. Lee grew up in Monroeville and watched her father practice law from the balcony of the courthouse. She modeled her book’s court setting after this local courtroom in Monroe County that was so familiar. And now, the Monroe County Courthouse is easily recognizable in the film from 1962.

The movie was not filmed in Monroeville,

but art director Henry Bumstead spent two days in the town with Lee while working on his design. He won an Oscar for set design on the film.

The courthouse has been returned to its 1930s appearance. And, since 1991, fans have come from all over the world to see the story portrayed live each spring in Monroe County at the Old Courthouse Museum.

You can also move throughout the courtroom when the shows are not going on, and the museum is home to two permanent exhibits: Truman Capote: A Childhood

in Monroeville, and Harper Lee: In Her Own Words. The Lee exhibit includes some of the storyboards from the film and a documentary where visitors can meet some of the citizens of Monroeville in the “Mockingbird Summers” segments. Many knew Lee and were around when the movie crew came through town. They talk about the excitement of it all and how the story’s message impacted their town and the world.

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Park in nearby Beatrice, which is a fully functioning water-powered gristmill and museum and has served the area since 1845.

The site is listed on the Alabama Register of Historic Sites and is dedicated to preserving past folk traditions, such as gristmilling, blacksmithing and cane syrup making, by holding many interactive events in the park each year. Visitors can watch as corn is ground into cornmeal and grits.

The town of Buena Vista came about in the mid-1800s and is a historical community for those visiting the area to spend some time looking around. Those who run the bed and breakfasts in the county encourage their guests to visit Buena Vista for its old charm. The Village of Buena Vista also has some of the best hunting and best fishing in Alabama’s Black Belt.

Where to Eat

Radley’s Fountain Grille embraces the popularity of Mockingbird (hence the name) and caters to those who visit the town during the play months. Their extensive menu includes hand-cut prime steaks, fresh Alabama seafood, including catfish, shrimp and oysters, homemade soups and desserts. Signature items are chicken salad, seafood gumbo and a “BLT Supreme” that has been selected by the Alabama Department of Tourism and Travel as one of “the one hundred foods in Alabama to eat before you die.”

Radley’s also boasts a great atmosphere and superb service in dining rooms with a unique blend of cherished family antiques,

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photographs, post cards and other items more than 100 years old.

Guests to Monroe County should also make it a point to visit GainesRidge Dinner Club in Camden. GainesRidge is located in an antebellum home from the 1820s, which is one of the oldest structures still standing in the area. The dinner club is known for delicious food, good service, and gracious atmosphere, along with some ghosts who call it their home. The screaming woman sometimes seen in the windows, sounds of a crying baby, the smell of pipe smoke, and a reflected image of a tall man with a long beard are harmless apparitions that add to the charm of the club. GainesRidge serves steaks, seafood, Black Bottom Pie and other Southern favorites.

Monroe County, being in a southern part of Alabama, is also home to a lot of barbecue. Big D’s Butts ‘N Stuff has been in business for three years on Alabama Avenue and won Al.com’s People’s Choice Best Ribs in Alabama. They serve Brunswick stew, brisket, BBQ nachos, which is the largest seller, and everything is homemade.

While you’re there, don’t forget to try the homemade banana and pineapple puddings and the bread pudding with a warm, buttery rum sauce. They’re also proud of their service and faith-based atmosphere.

Visitors can also check Cherry Street Bar-B-Q, Mark’s BBQ, Court House Café, Sweet Tooth Bakery and Deli, and more.

and breakfast options. The Historic Mary Elizabeth Stallworth House is located in Beatrice and was built in the early 1900s

by John Stallworth. His daughter Mary Elizabeth was the second woman to graduate from Auburn University’s School of Architecture and worked in Washington, D.C., during the Great Depression and World War II, according to David Steele, one of the trustees of the home. She moved back to the town in 1976 and left the home in a trust for use in the community.

The home became a bed and breakfast around 10 years ago and has three rooms available for rent and stays full during the play season. They offer a full Southern breakfast in the Stallworth dining room including Monroe sausage and grits from Rikard’s Mill.

There is also The Lodge at Buena Vista for those more interested in the hunting, fishing, and outdoor aspects of the area.

The Burgess– Sanders– Steele House is a private home also available as a bed and breakfast and designed to accommodate larger groups.

There’s a lot of discussion, and even some controversy, surrounding the upcoming release of Lee’s new novel, which seems to be somewhat of a sequel to the original release. “To Kill a Mockingbird” brought such acclaim to Monroe County; it’s yet to be seen what the next one will mean to the area. M

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Q & A

Harry and Josefina Rayburn

With Mother’s Day approaching, this mother-son duo show us what appreciation looks like on both sides.

Tell us about how you landed in Mississippi and the challenges of raising a family in a different culture than you were accustomed to?

Josephina: I met my husband Harry at the University of Southern Mississippi in the summer of 1972. I attended a foreign language institute to practice my English. He was there taking some summer courses. It was love at first sight.

Within less than a month, we decided we would get married. In December of that year, Harry went to Mexico to meet my family. We married the following year in May after school was out. I had read and heard about racial discrimination, especially in the South but I had never lived here. At the beginning, it was a challenge for me to be accepted by my husband’s family. He had six brothers.

All of them married white American, Southern girls. I did not realize that I was so different. Nowadays, I can proudly say all my in-laws like me and accept me for who I am. My mother-in-law was very nice to me and I dearly loved her. When our son was born and later started going to school, there were some times when I noticed racial issues. Having darker skin made him “different” from his friends. At a very early age I made him aware of who he was and what he could accomplish if he wanted to. I explained to him that he was a product of two cultures: the American and the Hispanic cultures and to take advantage of his background by learning and acquiring the best of both cultures. My husband and I told our son to be nice and kind to everyone. Because of this attitude, we can proudly say he was overwhelmingly accepted by his teachers, coaches and most of his peers.

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What quote/poem reflects your life?

Harry: The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand and determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.—Vince Lombardi Josephina: The Desiderata, a poem by Max Ehrmann. It summarizes my philosophy in life.

What is your all-time favorite movie?

Harry: Dead Poets Society Josephina: The Sound of Music. I watched this movie in Mexico many times and I continue to watch it here whenever they show it on TV. I love the music as well as the message.

What is the last book you read?

Harry: “Leading The Starbucks Way” by J. Michelli Josephina: In Spanish, “Eva Peron,” una biografia politica, by Loris Zanatta. I recently traveled to South America and in Argentina, I learned more about Eva Peron, a very controversial politician. I am reading her biography because I want to have my own opinion about this very interesting woman who came from a very humble beginning. In English, “Wisdom of our Fathers” by Tim Russert. I enjoyed this book because it encourages fathers to become good fathers. Our society needs more fathers to be good models to their children. We have to instill in our young boys the importance of fatherhood.

Tell about your community involvement.

Josephina: Now that I am semiretired, I love to help the community.

It is a blessing for me, especially when taking care of the needy and undeserved. I am involved in the

Salvation Army Women’s Auxiliary projects: Meals on Wheels, Empty Bowls and Angel Tree. I also do voluntary work at The Tree of Life clinic, which offers medical services twice a month. I interpret for Hispanics. I also interpret for some of the Tupelo Public Schools during registrations or when there is a need in a parent-teacher conference.

What brought you to your current profession?

Harry: I became interested in the health care profession in high school. At Millsaps College, I was fortunate enough to take part in an externship with a local dentist in Jackson. Not only was he able to help patients/people every day, but he was also very involved in his community as a baseball coach, Sunday school teacher and community activist.

Today I am a family dentist at Main Street Family Dentistry and I also coach my son Thomas’ traveling baseball team, am actively involved in the community as well as my church.

What advice would you give to your 23-year-old self ?

Harry: Every day is a new day.

Josephina: Enjoy life. Take advantage of every opportunity that is presented to you.

Who inspires you?

Harry: My mom. I know that may sound cliché, but I cannot tell you how many times a week I catch myself telling a patient, “I remember my mom telling me….,” Countless life lessons that I am now trying to teach my children, Cecie and Thomas.

Josephina: I do not have any athlete or actor as my “hero.” My heroes are the families that quietly and successfully live their lives in

a very productive and exemplary way. As far as world wide, I admire several. When I was a teenager in Mexico, I read the biography of Mahatma Ghandi, an Indian leader who believed in world peace. When I was studying English in Mexico, I wrote an essay on Abraham Lincoln, a politician with a lot of wisdom.

I also admire Mother Teresa, the missionary who helped the needy and underprivileged in India.

Favorite quality in your mom?

Harry: My mom is willing to help anyone in need. She is especially drawn to those who are trying to make a better life for themselves. My mother is a teacher in every sense of the word.

What are you most proud of concerning your son?

Josephina: My husband and I are very proud of our son. He is and has always been the joy of our lives.

Everyday when we hear about the good things that he has done, we give thanks to our good Lord for having given us wisdom and the ability to educate our son. He has been a good son, a good student, a good husband, a good father and a good citizen. We honestly think we could not ask for anything better. We want to thank everybody in the community who played an important role in our son’s education: teachers, coaches, parents and community leaders who always supported him. We can proudly say that he is the product of two good cultures. He was the first MexicanAmerican valedictorian and the first Mexican-American to deliver the commencement speech at Tupelo High School.

What’s your favorite thing about the South?

Harry: The generous and loving people that call the South home.

Josephina: My favorite thing about the South is that I feel at home. Tupelo, Miss., is where I have lived most of my life and I feel safe and happy here.

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JOE ATKINS•••••

Oxford and Ole Miss have served as home to a long list of very talented novelists. To that list, add Joe Atkins.

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asey’s Last Chance” is the sort of book you don’t so much read as experience, a classically hard-boiled thriller where the crimes are deadly, the women are strong, the bad guys are the worst to be found, and the story propels the “hero” through the dark roads of the South at a pace that pulls the reader through the book racing to catch up, all held together with a deliciously immersive noir writing style.

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The novel is the first for a man who has explored some of its themes in great depth as a non-fiction writer, Ole Miss journalism professor Joseph B. Atkins.

Mississippi-based publisher Sartoris Literary Group released the book in February, marking the culmination of a long-standing goal for Atkins.

“I was the quintessential reporter with the unpublished manuscript in the bottom drawer,” he said.

Not that Atkins is a stranger to

book publishing—he is the author of “Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press,” released in 2008, and the editor and a contributor to “The Mission: Journalism, Ethics and the World,” published in 2002.

It’s also not the first time he’s published fiction; his short stories have appeared in Hardboiled magazine and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.

The publication of “Casey’s Last Chance” was made all the sweeter by

the fact that Atkins has been close to publishing a book of fiction once before; his novella “Crossed Roads,” which shares characters with “Casey’s Last Chance,” was a finalist for the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Awards.

“I thought, this will be a cinch to get it published,” he said. “But I could never get it published. It was hard to shelve that first book and move on.”

It was a very different experience from newspaper reporting, writing stories on deadline that absolutely have to go in the next day’s edition.

“In journalism, you may have the editor yelling at you with smoke coming out of their ears, but unless it’s just libelous, they’re probably going to publish your story,” he said.

“The thing you have to face in fiction writing is failure – you fail, you fail, you fail. My first novel got rejected 40 times before I finally shelved it. It’s such a learning process to learn to put one of these things together,” he said.

Another challenge of writing fiction, Atkins said, is that it’s, well, fictional.

“When you’re a journalist, you don’t realize how dependent you are on the facts,” he said. “When you’re writing fiction, everything is up to you. Should she have blue eyes or green eyes? And then, when you get to page 166, you have to make sure she still has green

eyes.”

Atkins credits fellow journalism professors/novelists Ace Atkins and Jere Hoar with helping him successfully polish his second novel for publication.

The style and story of “Casey’s Last Chance” combine a love and a passion for Atkins – his love of noir thriller fiction and his passion for the working class; with a plot that talks about labor and race issues in Mississippi in the 1960s and says something about Mississippi today.

“I’ve felt a lifelong obligation to working-class folks, I come out of a working-class family,” he said, explaining that his father was a tool-and-die maker and his mother was a seamstress.

“Those sorts of social justice issues are very important to me.”

Atkins said, as a journalist, he feels a spiritual kinship with investigative reporters like George Seldes and I.F. Stone. “I think our best journalists have been motivated by a sense of, ‘I need to get this story out there because people need to know this.’ Journalists need to be loyal to the truth and to facts, but they also need to be honest about their passions.”

Having taught journalism at Ole Miss for almost 25 years, Atkins said he has seen many changes during his years in the field, but is optimistic about its

future.

“There is a need for journalism; a desperate need for good journalism,” he said. “We’re in a shifting landscape right now, and it can be kind of scary, but it’s also kind of exciting.”

Reason for optimism can certainly be seen at the Ole Miss journalism school, which has actually seen its enrollment expand substantially in recent years and added new courses of study like Integrated Marketing Communications and a master’s degree in narrative-focused journalism.

Atkins said the new master’s program and his involvement in the Ole Miss honors college have been extremely rewarding.

“I’ve got a really good gig right now,” he said. “I get to teach some really bright young journalists about longform storytelling.

“I’ve got nothing to complain about and a lot to be thankful for.”

Joseph B. Atkins will be signing his book, “Casey’s Last Chance,” at Reed’s GumTree Bookstore, 129 W. Main Street, Tupelo, from 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. Monday, April 13. M Photos by Lauren Wood

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elissa lives in a second-floor apartment above Nautical Whimsey restaurant, accessed from a side alley where she climbs the iron staircase to her New Orleans-style iron balcony entrance.

“I moved in a week before Tupelo’s Christmas Parade and was able to watch it out my window and be inside nice and

warm,” she said.

The life and energy of downtown living was what drew Melissa back downtown after several years living in a house out in the county.

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city. If I’m hungry and don’t feel like cooking, I can walk right downstairs to the restaurant.”

Melissa got a peek at the apartments before they were completed, and knew at first sight she wanted to live in one of them.

“My apartment is beautiful. It is gorgeous. What I love about it the most is the styling of it, leaving the brick exposed and the hardwood floors,” she said. “I have windows that look over Main Street. In the summer I look forward to being out on the balcony and just watching the city. I just really like how they decorated. They did a really good job. I’m in a one-bedroom apartment and I don’t need more space than that. It’s perfect.”

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Street. The 36-year-old mental health clinician practices hypnotherapy and trauma therapy, and describes herself as someone who likes to come in and be to herself.

“I have always loved the energy of the middle of the city. I like the fact that there’s lots going on and I can lie in bed and listen to all the life and activity, or go down there and join them.”

Melissa is also happy that her two roommates – Minnie, a miniature pincher, and Harriet, a beagle mix – were able to join her in her new digs, since some downtown landlords do not allow pets.

Although Melissa has a car, parking has never been an issue.

“The only reason I use the car is to go to the grocery store because there’s not a market downtown. If downtown would get a market, I’d probably hardly

ever use my car since I walk to work.”

And she is at peace with some minor inconveniences of downtown living.

“There are things you expect when you live downtown and that’s part of the culture of living downtown. I like the fact that I walk, like the fact that there’s noise, which is probably the biggest question I get from people.

Probably the only thing I’d change is to add a market and maybe another option for nightlife other than a restaurant or a bar.”

Barry Replogle, Chris Bray and Mike Carr, principals of 210 One Nation LLC that owns the building, were eager to capitalize on the desire of people like Melissa who want to live downtown.

They bought the property in 2014, first renovating the restaurant space for Amanda McDivitt to expand her Nautical Whimsey restaurant and bar

“When we got ready to work on the upstairs apartments we basically used the plans T.K. Moffett already had to build out the space,” Barry said. “There had been a fire and the inside staircase burned, so he didn’t put the staircase back inside but had already built the outdoor stairs and put the plumbing in for the upstairs.”

They teamed up with The McCarty Company for the build, and Barry said the work has been exciting.

“We tried to use as much of what was original as we could. We reused open beams, left exposed brick intact, and used original wood planks to make sliding barn doors for the bedrooms.”

The property includes two onebedroom units, each 600 square feet; one two-bedroom unit of 1,070 square feet; and a two-bedroom loft unit of 945 square feet. Melissa lives in one of the one-bedroom units and the other units are not yet occupied.

Common features of all the apartments are living rooms with custom barn door and ceiling fan, exposed brick and plaster walls, high ceilings, hardwood floors, fully equipped kitchen with stainless steel appliances, walk-in closet/utility room with full-size washer and dryer, and bathroom with linen storage and over-toilet storage.

Barry is a Realtor with TRI Realtors, though this is an independent project for Barry and his partners. However, TRI Realtors and Sudie Clark are handling rentals for the property.

The partners also recently bought another property in the Fairpark vicinity, and are enthusiastic about how downtown Tupelo is growing and developing.

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DAV I S L O V E L A C E C A N O E S Davis Lovelace loves his job, but his heart is in his hobby.

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The 2006 Mississippi State University graduate also works with wood for his real job, as the procurement forester at Enviva Pellets in Amory.

“I love my job, but also have dreams of having a boat building business,” said Lovelace, whose boatwrighting passion launched some 20 years ago while growing up in Jackson.

“Somebody had given my dad a magazine called, “Wooden Boat Vessels,” and in it was an article about building these canoes,” Lovelace recalled. “It was simple enough to do.”

Before long, father and son had built Wee Lass.

“That was the name of the hull design,” Lovelace said.

To construct a canoe, Lovelace first uses a table saw to rip lumber into quarter-inch strips. He then runs the strips through a router with a bead and cove bit.

“It cuts a convex shape on one side and a concave shape on the other,” Lovelace said.

Using glue, the strips are fit together like stacking cups, then tacked to the skeleton-like intervals of a plywood form along a strongback.

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floor, but you’re doing it on a curved surface,” Lovelace said. “You build it upside down.”

When the hull is sanded, fiberglass is applied inside and out, the forms are removed and the polypropylene webbing weaved seats are added.

From bow to stern, it’s a labor-intensive and time-consuming job.

“The fastest I ever put one in the water was 14 days,” Lovelace said. “The fastest I ever constructed a hull was in 13 hours.”

Learning the art of boat building wasn’t easy.

“This was in the early ’90s, back before YouTube,” Lovelace said, likening the trial-and-error method he and his dad employed to attending the school of hard knocks.

But he appreciates that he learned the craft alongside his father.

“It brought us much closer together,” Lovelace said. “With something like this, it teaches how the other person thinks. It fostered our love, it really did.”

Richard Lovelace said his son was a good student.

“He was easy to teach. He’s really, in some ways, better than I am,” said the elder Lovelace, a retired insurance salesman. “He’s more attentive to details than I am. It’s been a real interesting project over the years.”

At 80, Richard Lovelace doesn’t build as many boats as he used to, “but I’m going to build another one,” he promised.

As for his son, “The one I’m working on right now is 14 that I’ve built by myself, and I’ve had my hand in 10 more,” Davis Lovelace said.

The boats he first built with his father, as well as the ones he makes alone, are used by duck hunters, fly fishermen and recreational canoeists.

Lovelace’s canoes have been paddled in the Pearl and Mississippi rivers; the Buffalo and Spring rivers in Arkansas; the Tenn-Tom Waterway; the estuaries of Wilmington Bay, North Carolina; several bodies of water in and around West Palm Beach Gardens, Florida; and numerous private and public lakes in Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana and Alabama.

Just as every customer is different, so is every boat. That’s OK, Lovelace said, because it adds to his expertise.

“You will either find a new way to do something wrong, or learn a new way to do something right,” he explained.

“Every boat has blood and sweat and tears in it. Well, not tears, but blood and sweat.”

With the amount of work that goes into creating their sleek lines and natural, contrasting tones, Lovelace’s canoes sell from $1,200 to $7,000. He admits there’s not a large market for them in this part of the country, especially with less expensive plastic and aluminum boats widely available at big box sporting goods stores.

But his canoes are made to be used, Lovelace said, and are built to last.

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“I build an heirloom,” he said. “It’s something that you’re going to pass down.”

The man who taught him agreed.

“You can buy a plastic canoe or a kayak for $399,” Richard Lovelace said. “It will take punishments as far as hitting rocks and things like that, that these (wooden) canoes cannot take. But a Jeep is built to drive in the mud, and a Cadillac is built to go down the highway. These canoes are truly heirlooms. They’re a specialty.” M Photos by Lauren Wood 58

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This Tupelo native’s weekend project is a regular product in a few gift shops in Tupelo. But despite his success, Roger Smith is careful to keep this low key and relaxing.

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By Natalie Richardson

Since 2001, Roger Smith of Tupelo has been the owner of Waxing Poetic, LLC, a one-man, candle-pouring company. True to his “just a hobby” mantra, he has no set hours and no office, just a converted pool house in the backyard and a spare weekend every so often. Likewise, he makes no promises regarding inventory. But despite it all, his fragrant candles have been carried

in retail since his hobby’s inception.

It all started when Smith stumbled upon a website for making your own candles in the late ‘90s, and it piqued his interest.

“I thought, maybe I can make candles cheaper than my wife can buy them,” he said, only half joking.

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was all in or nothing, and Smith went all in.

He bought three molds and 50 pounds of wax and began experimenting. At the time, his wife had some Midnite Pottery pieces, and Smith decided to make the candles to match the colors of her set. They turned out well, so Smith called the owner of Midnite Pottery, Dean Webb, to tell him about his new craft.

Webb ended up asking Smith to bring some of the candles over to the pottery store on a consignment basis. As Smith was driving home from dropping eight candles off, he got a phone call from Webb.

All of his candles had sold. And so, the hobby became self-sustaining.

Now Smith’s backyard candleshop is filled to the brim with the tools of his weekend project. Boxes of wax are stacked beneath the counters and dozens of molds line the shelves. With one step inside, you’re surrounded by a medley of fresh, sweet fragrances, ranging from blackberry to teakwood. Although the shop smells like a favorite gift store, it’s definitely a man cave.

“I’ve got satellite TV out here, stereo

music,” he said. “I can turn on games and work while I’m watching.”

During the week, Smith works as the chief business development officer at Central Service Association based in Tupelo. Half the time, he’s on the road, and for much of his other time, he sits in front of the computer. Making candles has become a way to relax, he said. While there is some fascinating chemistry involved in mixing scents and additives to affect his paraffin candles’ fragrance and appearance, candle pouring is a pleasantly mindless activity, he said.

Once again, the hobby mantra pops up. If Waxing Poetic were to become something more than a pastime, it could potentially lose some of its relaxing nature.

So Smith is careful not to over-commit.

Regardless, he said he still sells about 50 of his gel candles each month in the Farmhouse in Tupelo and The Metro Gallery in Dexter, Missouri. He makes just about as many as he can sell, he said, with scents like Kudzu, Teakwood and Lime and Lemongrass being some of his most popular.

It’s a beneficial hobby for his wife Lisa, as well. “I don’t remember the last time I bought a candle,” she said.

The inside of their house is scattered with the Waxing Poetic wine bottle gel candles, which are currently Smith’s bestselling variety. “It’s been great for me having such a handy husband,” she said.

Although there was a bit of surprise when Smith randomly said he wanted to start making candles, it wasn’t really out of the ordinary. Smith has never been one to sit still. He’s made several items in their home, including their dining room table, the china cabinet and an industrial-chic bathroom fixture. He’s the type of man who loves to mow the grass for fun.

Candle making has simply become his most-used antidote against sitting still. Perhaps one day Waxing Poetic will become more than a self-sustaining hobby and morph into a business, he said. But for now, as Smith puts it on his Facebook page, “It was, and still is, a hobby.” M Photos by Lauren Wood

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