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Features Editor’s Letter pg.10 Fast Food pg. 13 You may have shunned this veggie as a child, but these recipes will make it a favorite.

Home How-to pg. 25 Next up in our “Home Spotlight” series is a backyard dream: a treehouse.

The Ultimate Foodie • pg. 18

Caroline Randall Williams is adding to the conversation of being proud of your roots and embracing Southern heritage.

From Foul to Fab • pg. 29

At first, this home took the owners’ breath away, but not in the way you might think.

At Home in Tupelo • pg. 41

Tupelo is on the agenda for many tourists, but what about the people who live in the area?

Rex Harsin • pg. 51

Hit the Road pg. 35 Filled with history, this small town is a site to see.

Fact Sheet pg. 47 Get to know the lady delivering sweetness to our city.

In The Know pg. 71 This duo turns wood scraps into works of art.

He has his hands in many forms of creativity and we like what we are hearing and seeing from him.

Going With the Flow • pg. 75

She retired to the river and welcomes outsiders to enjoy the view.

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Editor’s Letter

I love being outside. I often find myself in conversations about younger days and as others talk about video games, tv shows or movies, I usually can’t relate and I wonder why. After some thought and recollection, I know why. It’s because when you live in Enterprise, Mississippi and Randy Turner is your father, you stay outside. My younger days were spent with him in what I considered “the country.” (Side note: the whole town of Enterprise is “the country,” but my little mind couldn’t wrap around this at the time.) I was really a daddy’s girl at this point and I think he embraced it because my parents weren’t planning to have more children and he needed at least one of his girls to go hunting. Fortunately for him and me, a son was born and then I became attached to my Momma’s hip. Even still, I spent my days laying in a pool, at my brother’s ball games or enjoying lake days with friends. So when photographer Lauren Wood and I pulled up to Millie Thompson’s cabin on the river, I knew this was going to be a favorite story of mine. Millie had some music playing and she was drilling into a marquee letter she bought, but wanted to modify a bit. After she showed us around, she hopped into her kayak with Mac, her German Shepherd. I was in awe of her easy personality and calming environment and I think her story on page 75, told by her friend Ray, invites you to know more about the path to her life of leisure. I can also relate to Caroline Randall Williams who promotes a better South because she is proud of where she grew up (pg. 18). A few other favorites are the home renovation on page 29, because I, like many, am obsessed with watching others flip houses, and the profile on Rex Harsin, who I saw play at Lula Lee’s a couple of months ago. He’s crazy talented and we did our first video to go along with his story. Check it out on our website (mudandmag.com).

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

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BRUSSELS SPROUTS AND FETA PIE Ingredients: 1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon sugar 1/2 cup (1 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut in small pieces 2-4 tablespoons ice water 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 slice bacon, diced 2 1/2 cups Brussels sprouts, shaved 8 ounces ricotta 1 large egg 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese, grated 1/2 cup feta cheese, plus 2 tablespoons 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt freshly ground black pepper 1 cup baby greens Directions: Place flour, salt and sugar in a food processor and pulse until mixed.

Add the butter and pulse for 10 seconds. Mixture will looks like crumbs. Add water slowly until mixture becomes a ball. Be sure the mixture isn’t too wet. Place the ball of dough in plastic wrap and flatten into a disk. Refrigerate at least one hour before using. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place dough in 7 inch pie pan and place in refrigerator.

Heat olive oil in saucepan and add bacon. Add shaved Brussels sprouts and cook until lightly brown. Set aside. Stir together the ricotta, egg, parmesan, salt and pepper. Add the Brussels sprouts and bacon. Stir well. Fold in the baby greens and spread into the pie crust. Sprinkle with remaining feta cheese. Bake for 30 minutes.

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T H E U LT I M AT E F O O D I E : C A R O L I N E R A N DA L L W I L L I A M S Cookbook co-author Caroline Randall Williams sees herself as a food activist, “helping people prepare foods that sustain them.”

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he notions of soul food and healthy eating might seem like opposite ends of the eating spectrum until you open the pages of “Soul Food Love.”

The cookbook that came out earlier this year was written by the motherdaughter team of Alice Randall, the author of “The Wind Done Gone” and other novels, and Caroline Randall Williams, a poet and teacher. It is a food journey that takes readers through generations of family food traditions.

“In the Delta one thing you realize is how proud we are of our food culture,” Williams said. “I grew up with women with an incredible cooking tradition. I was raised eating food in the style of my grandmother, who was from Waycross, Georgia, so even though I eat healthy, it’s not in some weird, modern way.”

Williams is close to her mother Alice Randall, the celebrated writer.

She frequently shared with her mom the conversations about food with the students’ parents and her Delta girlfriends, and they didn’t see her healthy choices as real soul food.

“I wanted to maintain my healthy eating style while I was in the Delta, and my students, who were struggling with their own foods, would tease me about things I was eating,” Williams said.

Williams came to the Mississippi Delta in 2010 to fulfill a two-year commitment to Teach for America.

Though the recent Harvard University graduate and Nashville, Tennessee, native developed close friendships during her teaching years at the elementary school in Moorhead and the high school in Ruleville, she felt her style of preparing traditional foods was creating a cultural gulf between her and her Delta-reared friends.

“It seemed like I was distancing myself from my history and the Southern foods they knew,” Williams said. “My mom and I talked about that a lot. She struggled with her weight all

By Lena Mitchell of my adult life, and she decided she wanted to lose some weight, claim her health, and I started sharing some of my recipes with her.”

That’s where the cookbook collaboration began.

“Soul Food Love: Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family,” is described as “mining the traditions of four generations of black women and creating 80 healthy recipes to help everyone live longer and stronger.”

The four generations of black women began with Williams’ greatgrandmother, Joan Bontemps Williams, from whom Williams inherited a collection of cookbooks that has now grown to about 2,000. Her grandmother, Alberta Bontemps, continued the family food traditions.

“She lived back in the days when it was not as common for a black woman to have both an undergraduate and a graduate degree,” Williams said. “Her husband was civil rights lawyer Avon Nyanza Williams Jr., a first cousin of (Supreme Court Justice) Thurgood Marshall. Although she worked at a library, her real joy was cookbooks.

They included Chinese, Japanese, Russian, English, Irish, all kinds of food.”

One of the most important things her great-grandmother Joan taught her, Williams said, was that there was a difference between celebration food and the food you eat every day.

“One of the messages I’m most interested in sharing with people is that what we think of as soul food is really celebration food,” Williams said. One might have candied yams for a special event like Thanksgiving, but the daily equivalent would be a baked sweet potato.

“I was always raised to take foods from other cultures and be curious about different kinds of flavors you can incorporate,” she said. “Soul food is food from many different cultures

– French, English, African and some flavors that have come to life on American soil. Our appreciation of foods need to change, grow, expand, encompass all the things we continue to be exposed to.”

One of Williams’ favorite dishes, one that she makes most often for herself and that is frequently requested, is Peanut Chicken Stew.

“I love to make soups and stews,” she said. “They are becoming a forgotten art in my opinion. They are such a delicious, nutritious option, and they are easy on the budget.”

Williams’ undergraduate degree is in English, so she always knew she wanted to write. Although she published her first book of poetry earlier this year, Williams was not sure if that was her true career path.

After her two years with Teach for America, Williams, 28, completed her master of fine arts degree at the University of Mississippi. She began this year as a visiting assistant professor at West Virginia University.

“I really wanted to Teach for America because I believe in that program and believe in the necessity of giving back,” she said. “I want and need to educate.

I’m loving teaching and looking forward to teaching a class on cookbooks as literature. There are many ways in which a recipe is a poem. I want to spread this message of being a food activist, helping people living in a food desert prepare foods that sustain them.”

Williams is committed to penning another cookbook, and expects to be adding to her cookbook collection as well.

“I honor my Nana by doing that,” Williams said. “I want to keep it alive for her. One of the most important things I’ve been able to do for my family is add a cookbook I’ve written to that collection.” M Photo by Tenola Bravura Plaxico mudandmag.com

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PEANUT CHICKEN STEW Serves 8 to 10 Ingredients: 3 cups chopped cooked chicken 1 1⁄2 cups natural peanut butter 1 (28-ounce) can diced tomatoes, drained, or 3 1⁄2 cups diced fresh tomatoes 1 tablespoon curry powder 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper 1 quart Sweet Potato Broth (recipe follows) Salt 1⁄2 cup chopped roasted unsalted peanuts Directions: 1. Put the chicken, peanut butter, tomatoes, curry powder, and cayenne in a medium pot and pour in the sweet potato broth. Season with salt to taste. Simmer over medium heat until the peanut butter is completely blended and the stew has a thick, even

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consistency, 20 minutes. Ladle the stew into bowls and serve, sprinkling the chopped nuts over the top as a garnish.

SWEET POTATO BROTH Makes 1 Quart Ingredients: 1 medium onion, sliced 3 celery stalks, chopped 1 carrot, chopped Olive oil 1 large sweet potato 5 whole cloves Salt and pepper Directions: 1. In a large stockpot, sauté the onion, celery, and carrot in a tablespoon or so of olive oil—just enough to cover the bottom of your pot—over low heat. Meanwhile, peel and quarter the sweet potato. When the onion has softened, after about 8 minutes,

add the sweet potato to the pot along with 6 cups of water, the cloves, and a little salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, then lower the heat and simmer until the sweet potato is completely soft, about 30 minutes. Fish out the cloves, then puree the mixture in a blender or food processor, or if you’re working without fancy tools, by mashing the sweet potato into the side of the pot with a wooden spoon and stirring. If not using immediately, let cool, then cover and refrigerate for up to 5 days or freeze for up to 2 months.

Photo: “Reprinted from Soul Food Love: Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family.

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BACKYARD ADVENTURE BELDEN, MISSISSIPPI Past the Rajacich home is every child’s dream: a treehouse. Complete with beds and a front porch, this is a space suitable for playtime or relaxation.

MEET THE OWNER: VICKY RAJACICH Why did you decide to build a treehouse?

Growing up I was always building some sort of treehouse so when our grandskids Noah & Harleigh ask for a treehouse, it didnt take a lot to convince us.

What were your initial thoughts on what it should look like?

Rustic, whimsical, somewhere kids of all ages would enjoy spending time.

What were your most-desired features for the treehouse?

Built-in bunkbeds, cargo net loft, front porch and balcony.

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Did you encounter any hurdles during the process?

(Creating) the support system allowing movement with the trees and the log staircase.

What is it commonly used for now?

Playtime, sleepovers, birthday parties, cookouts and its a quiet space for a little alone time.

Any money-saving tips for someone wanting to build a tree house?

Use salvage lumber & supplies, and self labor. I used an antique pie safe hand made by my grandfather for an entertainment center, the Elk mount is from my brother Wayne, the snow sled is from our Montana family, the antique school desk is from friends in Florida.

Using family items has a lot more meaning.

What parts did you do yourself ?

This entire project was done by The Rajacich family: Paul, Vicky, Jake, Amber, Stephania, Caleb, as much help as a 5 and 3-year-old and a 9-month could give (Noah, 5 Harleigh, 3 and Colton, 9 months) and some great friends.

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F R O M F O U L T O FA B The simple 1980s ranch on River Road in Mantachie had stood empty for several years. Bank-owned after a foreclosure, it was all but a looker. Worse was the smell. When Amelia Adams, 29, and her husband Matt, 31, first set foot inside, a rank odor took their breath away.

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“It really smelled bad,” Amelia remembers, “like old-men feet” in a house that hadn’t been aired out for years.

But, they agreed, the house had potential. Amelia, aftercare coordinator at the Montessori School in Tupelo, calls it “good bones.”

And it didn’t hurt either that the 1,700-square foot home came cheap.

For a mere $18,000 the couple took over the 3-bedroom house situated on 1.5 acres of land. “The bank sold it to us as is. They thought it didn’t even have a septic system.” But it did. As the layers of old wallpaper — from mushroom to floral design— peeled away, the dank house transformed into a home, slowly, and one room at a time.

Of course, it took a lot of elbow grease, a mix of moxie and naïveté, plus heaps of help from their family.

“When we drove up, I was like ‘I’m trying not to cry,’ ” Amelia’s mother Jo Anne Massey says, recalling her first impression. “There were broken windows, boarded up windows and that aroma.”

But the young couple did not dither. First, they tore out nearly all walls, reducing the inside to just concrete and studs. Family members helped scrape off decades of linoleum squares, in some places a staggering five-layers deep, glued solidly into place and stubbornly fighting against removal, just like the smelly carpet. “I spent hours with my little razor knife scraping the foam [backing from the old carpet] off the floor,” Amelia says.

They found dead mice in the insulation. Undeterred, they carried on. It took nearly five years and very few professional installers to make the house a bright, modern affair. Pennypinching all the way and roping in the whole family to help, the couple spent roughly another $30,000 on a new metal roof, windows, slate tiles for the two bathrooms, a new bathtub and shower, stylish sinks, kitchen cabinets, granite tile counters, a few coffered ceilings, new walls, exterior doors, wainscoting in the bathroom, and a window seat between builtin bookshelves in the den. Matt, by training an alcohol and drug counselor, now co-owns with his dad an air conditioning and refrigeration

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business. It was the father-son team who treated the house to its first AC system.

The only real splurge were the hardwood floors throughout the home.

Admits Amelia, “It’s probably one of the few things we had installed that we didn’t do ourselves.” The Brandonnative, who holds a degree in art and photography, is responsible for all the art work in the house from objets trouvés artfully arranged on built-in shelves, to small oil canvasses and pressed leaves in restored frames.

Matt, she says, knows how to do most of the practical stuff. Do-it-yourself is the motto throughout. A set of run-ofthe-mill bedside tables were stained blue before Amelia hand-painted small white flower details onto them, mimicking intricate wood inlays. The master bedroom’s beige self-made upholstered nailhead headboard rivals the expensive ones you’d expect to find at the likes of Pottery Barn. In due course of the renovations, Amelia added more practical skills to her repertoire, like learning how to mud drywalls. “I watched a lot of HGTV and DIY Network and looked on Pinterest.” She chuckles, “It really gives you a false sense of confidence.

I didn’t even know walls went up in pieces. It was a definite learning curve.”

In this house, color matters. “I painted our bedroom three different times,” says Amelia of her quest for the perfect slate blue with a hint of gray. The kitchen pairs fresh yellow walls with turquoise-robin egg blue cabinets. For the latter, Amelia closely matched the color of the couple’s aqua Casafina plates, a wedding gift, now proudly displayed in the colorcoordinated cabinets with rustic chicken wire doors.

Matt is the laid-back one who, by Amelia’s account, accedes to his wife’s renovation ideas. An example? The couple had bought perfectly square slate tiles. But Amelia had set her heart on rectangular ones for a brick pattern. Matt cut some 70 tiles in half with a wet saw before Amelia laid them. A coffered-ceiling in the den? Sure thing. Now, with baby number two due in January, the couple is putting the finishing touches on the house, like adding a few crown

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moldings and a stained-glass transom window in the bathroom. Next on the agenda is a large, rectangular wood table for the entrance hall, cum dining room. Already Amelia has an exact idea of what she wants: a wood herringbone pattern to mirror the brick walkway she laid just outside the dining room window, leading to her front door. So far, Matt has never said “no� to any of her intricate remodeling schemes, she notes with a grin and a hint of surprise. M Photos by Lauren Wood

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nlike many iconic Southern communities, the town of Port Gibson survived the U.S. Civil War because Union General Ulysses S. Grant thought it “too beautiful to burn.”

Many of the landmarks preserved during the Civil War era remain for visitors to enjoy today and are a reason the town is on the National Register of Historic Places: Bernheimer House, Windsor

By Lena Mitchell Ruins, Temple Gemulith Chessed Jewish Synagogue, Bethel Presbyterian Church, and more.

Port Gibson is the Claiborne County seat and the third oldest settlement in Mississippi, occupied in 1729 and chartered in 1803. It also is within easy reach of other historic Mississippi cities – 30 miles south of Vicksburg, 40 miles north of Natchez and 60 miles southwest of Jackson along the Natchez Trace Parkway.

It lies along Highway 61, more familiarly known in Mississippi as “The Blues Highway.” (The route of Highway 61, which was laid out in the 1920s, runs from New Orleans to Wyoming, Minnesota, and at 1,400 miles is the 20th longest north-south highway in the United States.)

Along with its Civil War history – the Battle of Port Gibson and Grand Gulf Military Park – the town played a significant role in African-American history.

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Rodney Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church

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The Mississippi Cultural Crossroads cultural arts center highlights the area’s storytelling, folk arts and theater. A centerpiece exhibit includes handcrafted heirloom quilts, primarily the work of the predominantly African American Crossroads Quilters.

At the Matt Ross Administration Building is a display titled “No Easy Journey,” exhibits of photographs, documents and other memorabilia of the area during the Civil Rights Movement.

In October 2007, a Mississippi Blues Trail marker was placed in Port Gibson to honor The Rabbit Foot Company, a traveling minstrel troupe that had a cast of African-American performers that included singers, dancers, comedians and other entertainers. It is considered to have contributed to development of the blues in

Mississippi.

Outdoor enthusiasts also will find plenty to appeal to their interests.

Not only does the Grand Gulf Military Park include a Civil War battlefield site, museum, historic buildings, cemetery and observation tower with a view of the Mississippi River, but it also has tent and RV campgrounds and picnicking facilities.

With the approach of fall, hundreds of hunters will be flocking to Canemount Plantation, a 10,000-acre hunter’s retreat that includes an abundance of wild game like deer and turkey. Many also are drawn to the area for river fishing.

A 33-mile trail for biking and touring has been laid out that includes the Windsor Ruins. The Windsor Ruins are 23 Corinthian columns that still stand as remains of an antebellum Greek Revival

mansion built in 1861. It was the largest such structure ever built in the state, and although it survived the Civil War, a fire destroyed it in 1890.

Other significant architectural and historic sites that are must-sees for Port Gibson visitors include: • Port Gibson Battlefield: The opening shots of the Battle of Port Gibson were fired at Shaifer House, which for a time served as headquarters for a Union general and as a Union hospital. Visitor information: (601) 446-6502 • Wintergreen Cemetery: This cemetery began as the family cemetery of Port Gibson founder Samuel Gibson, and is considered one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the state. Visitor information: (601) 437-8846 • Port Gibson City Hall: City hall is

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Original Grand Gulf Jail

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housed in a building that formerly served as part of Port Gibson Female College. A photo exhibit of Claiborne County history, “Picturing Our Past,” is housed there.

Visitor information: (601) 437-4234 • Bernheimer House: The three-story, 7,500-square-foot house, is an example of Queen Ann-Craftsman architecture.

It served as General Ulysses S. Grant’s headquarters after the Union Army took over Port Gibson, and has undergone few changes since it was built. Visitor information: (800) 735-3407 • Temple Gemulith Chessed Jewish Synagogue: Built about 1891 in a MoroByzantine Revival style, this structure was determined by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History to be the oldest Jewish synagogue in Mississippi, and it has been designated a Mississippi Landmark.

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One-man Submarine used for bootlegging

Visitor information: (601) 437-4708 • First Presbyterian Church: This was the first Presbyterian church established in the Mississippi Territory in 1798. The architecture features a steeple with a golden hand on top with a finger pointing toward heaven. Visitor information: (601) 437-4351 • St. Joseph Catholic Church: Built in 1849, St. Joseph is the oldest church in Port Gibson. It is known for its altar rail which was hand carved by a 17-year-old artist.

Visitor information: (601) 437-4587 • Alcorn State University: Established in 1871, Alcorn State is the first predominantly black land grant college founded in the United States. It is the alma mater of Civil Rights activist Medger Evers, and is located in nearby Lorman.

In the midst of all the touring and

sightseeing, one can pause for a meal at Mr. Dee’s Old Country Store in nearby Lorman for their popular Southern fried chicken, or check out Billy Bob’s for barbecue.

Visitors to Port Gibson on Oct. 10, will have to check out the Kansas City Barbecue Society-sanctioned Second Annual Barbecue Competition, highlighting blues and bikes, noon-6 p.m.

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Within a day’s drive of Tupelo are some of the Southeast’s greatest travel destinations. Tupelo residents can choose from big cities like Nashville and Atlanta to the food culture of New Orleans, the Gulf Coast and the Smoky Mountains —and all the Florence, Memphis and Birmingham day trips in between. All those options can obscure the fact that tens of thousands of people travel from all over the world to experience Tupelo’s historical heritage.

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“We all tend to want to go other places for leisurely activity, but we’re so blessed here in Tupelo with so many things people travel around the world to do,” said Jessica Hollinger, of the Downtown Tupelo Main Street Association and Tupelo Farmer’s Depot. “It becomes a true community event when we engage with each other, and the more time and energy we spend here at home, the better home gets.”

Lee County’s tourism industry generated $245 million from visitors in 2013 while employing 3,750 workers, according to a study from the Mississippi Development Authority. These numbers show Tupelo, and it’s surrounding municipalities, have a lot to offer.

What are Tupelo’s most popular and locally overlooked destinations? The Elvis Birthplace and Museum attracts around 80,000 visitors each year, almost half of those who travel internationally to get to Tupelo. Of those, one percent 42

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is made up of hometown visitors.

“The fact that Elvis was a hometown boy means a lot to me and many other people in Tupelo,” said Dick Guyton, executive director of the Elvis Presley Memorial Foundation. “His story tells any of us that with desire and skill, we can accomplish anything.”

Guyton said anyone looking for a relaxing staycation can call ahead and get a personal tour of the museum that tells the story of Elvis as a boy and the city where he grew up. The surrounding park features the tiny, two-bedroom home where Elvis was born, a beautiful campus in the heart of Elvis’s boyhood neighborhood and an interactive church service in the same church where Elvis learned to sing.

The museum, which is always adding new experiences, recently revealed a two-part statue of Elvis the boy dreaming in the shadow of Elvis the legend.

The statues top the hill where Elvis

was known to go and dream about his future.

After a visit to the museum, residents can find a guided driving tour that points out the historical significance of everyday landmarks through the eyes of Elvis — like Milam Elementary School, where Elvis attended Junior High School and performed for his classmates, or Johnnie’s Drive-In, where Elvis hung out and worked.

A trip to Tupelo Hardware in the heart of Tupelo’s growing downtown will put staycationers in front of the very shop counter where Elvis purchased his first guitar.

George Booth, the great-grandson of the founder of Tupelo Hardware Store, is an ambassador on the city’s tourism website but said he can be just as bad about working and going straight home.

“Most days I just want to get home and hang out there and work on my house,” he said. “But sadly, there are es-

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sential Tupelo experiences that I haven’t even seen. Most of my friends in Tupelo could make a recommendation to a tourist for a place to visit or eat, but a lot of us don’t have a personal experience to share about that place.”

When he can convince himself to get out instead of piddling around his house, Booth said he likes to play disc golf at one of the many parks, spend time on the Natchez Trace or take visiting friends to the Elvis Birthplace and the restaurant Blue Canoe.

Elvis isn’t Tupelo’s only national sensation. A recent survey and online poll by the website Thrillist named Neon Pig’s Smash Burger the best burger in America.

Chef, butcher and owner of Neon Pig and Kermit’s Outlaw Kitchen, Mitch McCamey said Tupelo is in a unique position in America’s farm-to-table food culture.

“We have so many farms around us

Award-winning Smash burger

that we get the best ingredients in the world,” he said. “And it’s special because of the struggle of it. In New York it’s a trend, but here everyone knows a good tomato, everyone has a garden and everyone is a cook.”

Many of the ingredients McCamey and other Tupelo restaurateurs use can be purchased at the Tupelo Farmer’s Depot downtown Thursday and Saturday mornings or Tuesday afternoons.

He said Tupelo is fun for him because when he worked in big-city kitchens or travels to study other restaurants, the speed is hectic, “People here are open minded, and the speed is just slower. In most cities, we would turn the K.O.K. dining room over four times. We only do it twice. People would rather move around the restaurant and talk to everyone they know than rush through a meal.”

When McCamey is tired of eating his own food, he grabs lunch at Café 212,

where he says owners Jason and Amanda Hayden have mastered their sandwich craft at the same level as any awardwinning classical French restaurant in New York, or Blue Canoe, where he recommends pairing the great bar food with live music.

“Tupelo is a very smart and welltraveled town,” McCamey said. “It’s just as important to be well-traveled at home so you can build community and generate energy. We have a responsibility, especially as the younger generation, to grow our tradition while evolving.

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Tupelo can be tough to fit into one day, but some of the city’s best-traveled locals helped us put together a list of musts to help plan your staycation: Early Morning • Connie’s Donuts • Tupelo Farmer’s Depot Mid Morning • Shanti Yoga • Elvis Birthplace Museum Lunch • Café 212 • Johnnie’s Drive In (cash only) • Finney’s • Food Trucks

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Early Afternoon • Splash pad at Veteran’s or Fairpark • Downtown Window Shopping • Tupelo Hardware (where Elvis bought his first guitar) Late Afternoon • Disk Golf at Ballard, Veteran’s or Tombigbee State Park • Natchez Trace Visitor’s Center and Hiking Trails • Tupelo Automobile Museum • Tupelo Buffalo Park

Dinner • Kermit’s Outlaw Kitchen • Gabriel’s • Neon Pig Evening • Music, Beer and Bar Food at Blue Canoe •Music, Beer and Bar Food at The Stables

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How long have you lived here?

I’ve lived in Northeast Mississippi my entire life. I moved to Shannon in 7th grade where I stayed until 4 years ago when I moved to Tupelo.

What is the most played song on your iTunes?

Ahh.. I listen to a variety of music. But have to say ‘Son’s Gonna Rise’ Citizen Cope is most played.

What is your all-time favorite movie?

I love to laugh, and comedy is my favorite. I’ve watched Talladega Nights a million times and I laugh as hard as I did the first time I watched it.

What is the last book you read?

Cupcake Brown. It’s about a a young girl who loses her mother and is taken from her father. She ends up in several foster homes where she’s raped and introduced to drugs. Cupcake eventually joins a gang and gets pretty bad off. In the end she becomes a successful lawyer. It’s a true story, quite an amazing story of struggle, and the determination to have a better life. And yes, Cupcake is her real name..look her up.

What do you do to relieve stress?

Pinterest. I love Pinterest.

What’s your guilty pleasure?

Hmmm.. I would have to say cheesecake!

What brought you to your current profession?

My partner (& boyfriend) introduced the idea of PoPsy. He lived in Birmingham for a little over a year where he would often visit a pop shop.

When he moved back to Tupelo he bragged and bragged on it. After trying it out several times, he suggested we start our own pop shop in Tupelo. I was all in :). I also sell real estate at Crye Leike Realtors. I fell in love with real estate after watching Sandra Rinomato in the show Property Virgins. She was awesome!

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

A lot, haha. Mainly this: as long as you’re kind and you’re working hard toward positive goals, everything is going to work out. Quit stressing so much. It makes your acne worse!

What is the most memorable customer experience you’ve had at the Popsy cart?

I have several.. But the one that has really stuck with me is from my very first weekend of having the cart out.

We were set up at Sportsplex in Ballard

Park for a ball tournament where a mother (Ginger Ivan) came to me and thanked me for being there. She was very appreciative that her children were offered a healthier treat that they enjoyed eating. She went on and on, about how awesome it was and I could tell how important it was to her. Made me proud.

What’s your favorite Popsy flavor?

It changes constantly. Right now Banana Puddin’. It’s so, so good!

What advice would you give young entrepreneurs?

First, everything that can go wrong, usually does. Learn not to dwell on it. Fix the problem, learn from it and move on! In the beginning, I would get heartbroken when a freezer or cart broke down and all my hard work and potential money was wasted. It hurt, it still hurts, but I’ve learned that you have to move on, keep it moving.

Second, hard work beats talent when talent isn’t working. Work hard. Just because you’re not the most talented doesn’t mean you can’t be the best!

Third, be patient! Still working on that one.

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What’s your favorite thing about the South?

FOOD.. I love southern food. I stayed with my grandmother a lot growing up. I’m pretty sure I can’t live without cornbread and peas.

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or Harsin, creativity is like a toolbox – it’s more about what he’s trying to create than how he’s trying to create it. He’s a musician, a photographer and videographer, a writer, a filmmaker, and an animator. (“…And a husband and father,” he’s quick to add. “That’s what’s

By David Hitt important.”)

“They’re all the same thing,” Rex said of his diverse creative talents.

“I’ve developed different skills, but everything starts with imagination. It starts with an idea of ‘What if we did this…?’”

And, increasingly, he said, it’s becoming about how he can use those

talents to help others.

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is doing wedding photography and videos.

“A lot of people can’t afford to have a nice video of their wedding, so I like to give them that option,” he said.

Even that Friday night gig was a way of contributing to his community.

Lula Lee’s is owned by Harsin’s friend Clark Richey, who, through businesses like that restaurant and the Claude Gentry Theatre, is working to breathe new life into Baldwyn’s historic district.

Harsin’s current band, The Blue Dog Band, is rooted in his love of the blues. “To me, all music is on the foundation of the blues,” he said. “Even when we play a pop song, it’s got some blues to it. We play ‘Uptown Funk,’ but it’s got a blues song. It’s like wearing blue sunshades, everything looks blue.”

That philosophy carries over when

he plays in his church’s worship band.

“Which is cool,” he said, “ because blues comes from black spirituals, so it’s coming back around.”

Harsin met Clark Richey when they were both actors in a performance of the musical “Grease” at Richey’s theater, and the relationship grew into both a friendship and a prolific creative partnership.

“Clark’s awesome,” Harsin said.

“He’s been such a Godsend in our lives. We’re both geeks; we’re making Batman and Superman references nobody else gets.

“Clark and I wrote a Western together, which will be put on stage (as a play) in March and filmed (as a movie) in April.”

A college foray into filmmaking paid off for Harsin rather richly. “I spent a lot of years making silent films, just for fun, mostly,” he said.

Then, at the end of a semester, he was working buying textbooks, and a fellow student there to sell hers said she recognized him from those films.

Three months later, that woman was his wife.

Recently, Harsin has taken his desire to use his talents to help others much farther than ever before – literally – when he traveled all the way to China to support a mission trip.

Harsin is friends with Mike Pittman of My Brother’s Cup coffee shop in Shannon, who travels to China regularly for missions.

The trip required Harsin to be gone for two weeks, leaving his wife, Amaris, and two young daughters, Lucy Jo and Stevie Rae – the latter only 3 weeks old.

“Mike’s been asking me to go for a while, but I just graduated from Ole Miss, so I couldn’t take two weeks off

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from school without failing,” he said.

“So even with a 3-week-old baby, this was my first opportunity to do this.

My wife encouraged me to go, so I’m going.”

On the trip, Harsin recorded video of the work Pittman did in order to create a video Pittman can use to help raise support for future missions.

Harsin is planning another trip to China in January, and a trip to India next year, and has contacted other missionaries about doing the same for them.

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happen if volunteers would use a tenth of their food budget to feed others.

While Harsin said he hated leaving his wife and daughters behind so soon, he believed it was important, both for the people he’s helping and for his family.

“My wife and I are really looking at going and serving overseas,” he said.

“We have a heart for kids – though we’ll serve wherever we’re called – and we want our girls to grow up understanding that life is more than just this American culture; we want them to grow up seeing a God culture.

We don’t want them to grow up feeling entitled.

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Jack Of All Trades

Rex is a musician at Lula Lee’s, a photographer and videographer and is working on a film production company with Baldwyn entrepreneur Clark Richey. Photos

by Lauren Wood

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H e n r y F u r n i t u r e C o.

On weekend nights, it isn’t out of the ordinary to find Cole and Carrick McKinney at a condemned house or building, dragging out huge wooden beams in their pajamas by the headlights of Cole’s Jeep.

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“People tip us off all the time to places we can salvage wood from,” Carrick said. “We’re never sure going in what we’re getting, but it’s always interesting.”

The Tennessee natives own and operate Henry Furniture Company out of New Albany, making beds and tables by hand – and by hand, they mean everything, from cutting to planing, from sanding to staining.

“New wood, like pine, it’s white and soft and generic,” Cole said. “It’s the same every time.”

A bundle of dirty, nail-studded wood crowds the floor of their workshop, a modest storage unit tucked away on a side street in New Albany. Outside the loading bay under a tarp is another stack of boards a friend gave them off a barge.

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putting a puzzle together,” Cole said.

“It’s more work, but we don’t rush it.

When you’re working with 120-year-old floorboards, everything feels like it has a story behind it.”

The story of Henry Furniture Co. begins like all invention: with necessity.

Carrick and Cole met and graduated from Ole Miss, with degrees in graphic design and business management, respectively. Carrick was back and forth between New York with an internship, during which time Cole found himself without a bed.

“I just had a mattress on the floor, so me and my roommate borrowed some tools and built a bed frame out on the front porch,” Cole said. “We put some pictures on social media, and from the comments it seemed like maybe we had something.”

Cole’s grandfather worked in a log

mill outside of Eugene, Oregon, and taught him the bare basics of wood working as a kid. His grandfather would cut old growth fir and sell it overseas, and as he cut it, he taught Cole how to grade it. But that had been long ago.

When Carrick’s internship was over, the two were wed and moved to New Albany about a year ago.

In the first month, the couple sold half a dozen beds. They’ve shipped all over Mississippi, and recently sent a trailer full to New York City. In the meantime, they experimented with bunk beds, day beds, night stands, and a few other designs.

“The bunk bed came about when a woman in Atlanta ordered three headboards and asked if we would make two bunk beds for her too,” Carrick said.

“So that was a fun challenge to figure out.”

Cole agreed.

“We’re good about customizing and listening to customers and getting them exactly what they need,” he said.

The couple prides themselves on making sturdy, long-lasting, tough furniture, and Carrick said when they complete a bed, they hang and swing on it to make sure it holds up. Surprisingly few of their orders have come from the area. Most ship out toward the East Coast, according to Cole. But the two have been making appearances at nearby farmer’s markets, and have seen success there.

“It makes all the difference having something they can see and touch in person,” he said. “And when people walk by, we get to have a conversation with them.”

Carrick said that what started out as a hobby has turned into a lot of long

nights and weekends, but neither of them would have it any other way.

“It’s our time together,” she said.

“When we started, he called me ‘The Hammer’ because that’s all I knew how to do, but we’re always learning. He does most of the cutting, but I do most of the staining.”

Cole works as a new project specialist for a Toyota distributor. It’s a desk job, he said, so by the time the 5 o’clock whistle blows, he’s ready to be on his feet.

“It’s definitely an outlet for me,” he said. “It’s more fun than work and it’s nice to actually do something together.

There’s always something new to try.

Like we never thought about making a day bed until a customer asked for one, so we drew it out and sent them the plans and brought it to life.”

Cole said they intended to keep

working with old wood, but in upcoming projects, he wants to learn how to work with steel and copper to incorporate an industrial look to the furniture.

Ironically, Carrick said their own home is actually sparse of furniture.

“We’ll get to our house someday,” she said.

Cole recalled his grandfather, who passed away a few weeks ago.

“When we got into it, he said, ‘I can’t believe what you’re doing with the stuff I taught you,’” Cole said. “He was stoked about it.” M

Out of the Woodwork

Cole and Carrick McKinney create furniture out of wood scraps in New Albany, Mississippi. Photos by Lauren Wood

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GOING WITH THE FLOW

Former teacher learns lesson in liberation through kayak rental business

T

he warm, knee-deep waters of a sandy section of Town Creek are about 20-something miles by blacktop from the elementary classroom Millie Thompson would have decorated with autumn colors by now. There’s something about the way the leaves cycle through from

By Ray Van Dusen summer greens to autumn reds on the paddle to her happy place on Monroe County’s Old Tombigbee River in Wren. It is a little more relaxing than instilling educational basics to her prekindergarten and kindergarten classes five years ago.

Since switching professional roles from a teacher to a kayak rental

proprietor, she still seems to be educating a former student every now and then.

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said. “I taught her A,B,Cs back then, and now I’ve given her a lesson in river navigation.”

The Aberdeen Elementary School retiree has always had some sort of connection to the outdoors. From pulling her horses in a pink horse trailer to trail rides to making waves up and down the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway on a Sea-Doo with some retro sunglasses on her face, she’s put a hip twist on being a worshipper of the sun.

“This is a lot less strenuous on your body. I’ve been on lots and lots of trail rides and have been out on them with the kids when it was 30 degrees. I loved

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to get out on a horse in the woods by myself, but it’s a lot of upkeep. With kayaks, you just pull them up and wash them off,” Thompson said.

In 2012, she packed up the very few belongings she needed for her 1,000-square-foot cabin on stilts, yards from the banks of the Old Tombigbee River. The move was a downsize from a 2,600-square-foot house on five acres, 10 miles south of there.

“I didn’t need three toilets and a big yard to mow,” Thompson said.

“I got a U-Haul trailer, and told the kids to come and get everything they wanted because this place was already furnished. I basically brought an iron

bed, an armoire and an antique desk, and sold the rest at a yard sale.”

That liberating life decision mimics her laid-back personality. The charm of the water was always an invitation to stick her toes in or take the Sea-Doo for a little exploring, but borrowing a kayak for a few months last year sparked another way of reinventing outdoors fun.

“I just wanted people to share my paradise. A man who came yesterday said, ‘I’ve lived in Amory my whole life, and I didn’t know this even existed,’” Thompson said during an interview in mid-August. “It really is a secret place.”

Just north by water from her home is

a split where going left takes paddlers over fairly shallow stretches of Town Creek with winding sandbars on their right and towering bluffs on their left.

Where the course splits right, trees on the bank offer a more pristine paddle through Monroe County’s more natural scenery onwards to Bigbee.

When Thompson took the plunge of starting her business, River Life Kayak Rentals, Memorial Day weekend this year, she started buying kayak after kayak to stack her armada of colorful boats.

She frequented Walmarts in Amory, Starkville, Columbus and Tupelo, had TJ Maxx locations in Columbus and

Tupelo calling her when a new shipment arrived, and found a few more online.

“Twenty was going to be my limit, but I’m up to 22 now, including mine,” said Thompson, who vows she’s not buying any more kayaks.

Since starting, her kayak rental business has opened up a new outdoor activity for several people who’d never even held a paddle in their hands.

“The majority of the people have never been, and they ask if it’s hard. I tell them, ‘Naw, I started when I was 60.’ I told myself when I was 60, I’d get a tattoo and start a business,” she said with a chuckle while a smidge of a peace sign tattoo with a flower behind it was

visible on her left shoulder through her tank top.

Throughout the summer, she’s hosted ages 7 to 70 for birthday parties, casual paddles and two reunions including people from Birmingham, Jackson and Memphis. She touts Monroe County’s central location and her unique service to the reunions.

Beyond canoe and kayak rentals in southern middle Tennessee, south Mississippi, Tishomingo State Park and northwest Alabama, she’s cornered the market for her immediate area on rivers.

“One guy from Tupelo told me that he can afford it now since it’s cheaper here, and he doesn’t have to drive so far.

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He’s been here three times so far. I’ve had other guys come in from Alabama since they couldn’t rent from Bear Creek during the week. I really like for people to call in advance, but most people just show up,” Thompson said.

She’s heard positive reviews after paddlers come back from a day of exploring the streams. Some have asked about tent camping, and she always offers rental of an approximately 300-square-foot Katrina cabin on her property.

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Whether people devote to an overnight trip or not, she has concluded their experience by grilling some courtesy hot dogs for the paddlers. She added that one lucky group recently got to feast on some Boston butts since she’d cooked more than she could eat herself.

Thompson is branching the business away from the old river to the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway for a day on Oct. 17 at Aberdeen’s Bukka White Blues Festival. She plans to keep

the service going through the fall for anyone wanting to see some of those autumn reds on the way to her happy place. M

Fact box: Name: River Life Kayak Rentals Address: 30077 River Bend Lane, Amory, Mississippi Telephone: (662) 640-2043

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