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C OCONTENTS NTENTS

7 Fitness: Runners Chris Wise and Barbara Sheffield discuss benefits they receive by running.

10 Homegrown: Learn what it takes to turn your small space into a garden oasis.

13 The Arts: Artist reflects on the past and looks ahead to the future.

16 Home Sweet Home: Take a tour of the beautiful home owned by Mona and Bob Jackson.

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Red bell peppers grown at the Mississippi State University Coastal Research and Extension Center test garden in Biloxi.

Photo by Cathy Cook

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y now, football season is in full swing, which means the leaves will be falling, and the weather will cool. Even though we won’t need to get the jackets out of the closet for another month or two, the humidity that plagues our daily weather will begin to wane.

As we prepare for fall, and all of the holiday shopping that will soon follow, give the pages of this magazine a read.

Inside this edition of Picayune Living you will find stories about a house in Poplarville that is more than 100 years old, you will read about the artistic talents of a Pearl River County resident, and also learn how to create a garden in the smallest of spaces.

Along the streets of Poplarville are many historic homes. One such home was built in the early 1890s as a boarding house for the lumberjacks who worked in the area when the tung industry was in full swing. It’s now the private home of Mona and Bob Jackson.

Those with artistic talent may let their passion fall to the backburner

when the responsibilities of life take priority. But as those responsibilities lessen and more free time becomes available, those same people may go back to the endeavors they enjoyed so many years ago. Be sure to read about our featured artist, Annette Lestremau, who has rekindled her own creativity.

If fitness is a topic of interest, you will enjoy reading about the benefits of running. From local coaches to the fitness minded, running provides the human body with a cardio workout that also tones the muscles while providing an excuse to enjoy the outdoors.

Thoughts of gardening may generate images of large plots of land with rows and rows of fresh grown vegetables. However, gardening on a small scale can be just as fruitful. In addition to requiring less space, small scale gardening can keep your kitchen stocked with all of the fresh produce and herbs any dish could call for.

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FITNESS

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unning comes in a variety of forms, from simple jogging to races that cover thousands of miles.

However, no matter what kind of running a person enjoys, there are a multitude of health benefits due to the physical exercise.

The benefits range from increased bone mass, weight loss, to an increase in mental well being.

Chris Wise has been running for as long as he can remember.

As the Cross Country Coach at Picayune Memorial High School, he said that running serves as a way for him to relax and recharge.

“It’s therapy, it’s something to get through difficult times,” Wise said. “When it’s been a tough day you can get out there and run, and the endorphins are released. It helps you survive.”

Endorphins are chemicals inside the human brain responsible for a euphoric feeling felt during or after a workout.

Wise understands how running as an exercise regimen can positively affect the human body and mind, and that’s why he’s such a proponent of it.

Barbara Sheffield has been running for seven years, and in that time the 52-year-old has learned to love it.

Sheffield started small, just running from light pole to light pole in her neighborhood.

As time went on and her endurance grew, she increased the distance.

Now, after only running for those short years, her work and dedication has landed her a spot in the Boston Marathon.

Sheffield said that qualifying for the marathon was an incredible moment, but that running serves other purposes in her life than just physical exercise.

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“I have made some lifetime friends with my running,” Sheffield said.

As research continued to expand and develop, it has become more obvious that running not only benefits the human body, but the mind as well.

However, there are other positives things runners get from the activity, and that’s what Wise said is so beautiful about the exercise.

It’s something that anybody can pick up at any time in their life and still benefit.

“I wish we had more paths and trails to run where people didn’t have to worry about cars,” Wise said. “It’s a necessary component to a successful and thriving community.”

At the end of the day, no matter where he has to run, Wise will do it.

“I would say the best part of running is the sense of freedom,” Wise said.

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HOME GROWN

By CAT H Y COOK

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hen people envision a vegetable garden they often picture a large tilled plot of land in their minds, but small gardens can still be fruitful.

Dr. Christine Coker is an associate professor of urban horticulture for Mississippi State University and often works with community gardens.

Even in very small spaces, like patios or balconies, small gardens can thrive so long as they have a water source and sunlight. Full sun, which means six to eight hours of continuous sunlight each day, is best for growing most fruits and vegetables, Coker said.

Small gardens can be easier to maintain, because there are fewer plants to care for, but the same chores that exist in the care of a normal sized garden are still needed for small ones; such as weeding, fertilizing and watering.

Any vegetable grown in a traditional garden can be grown in a small space or container garden, Coker said, so her first question to aspirational gardeners is what they like to eat.

“It’s no fun growing things if you don’t like them. Bell peppers are very easy to grow and expensive to buy in the grocery store. That’s one I like to start off with,” Coker said.

Herbs make a good choice for a small

garden, because they are easy to use in the kitchen, most of them grow yearround and they add lots of fragrance, Coker said.

Vining crops like cucumbers spread out all over the place, so people do not think to plant them in small gardens. But Coker said gardeners can use a trellis to keep the vines from underfoot. Two panels of fencing placed in an A-frame shape over a garden or stakes and chicken wire can be used to create a trellis, Coker said.

Even those who live in an apartment can establish a small garden by using sub-irrigated containers because they take up little space. And, there is no need to drag a water hose around. Subirrigated containers can be purchased or built at home.

Raised beds can keep a small outdoor garden contained and salad tables can make gardening more accessible. Coker describes a salad table as a raised gardening bed built with wood, hardware cloth and a fiberglass screen. The tables can be built at whatever height is comfortable for the gardener.

A salad table can make gardening accessible to those with decreased mobility, including those in a wheelchair, requires a walker or who has difficulty with their knees, Coker said.

Gardening in a small space can be cheaper, because there are fewer expenses like fertilizer and water, but gardeners can make the hobby as expensive as they want with expensive containers or irrigation systems, Coker said.

“You can make gardening very expensive, or you can do it on the cheap,” Coker said. “A five-gallon bucket with holes drilled in the bottom is a perfectly acceptable garden.”

A single tomato plant can be grown in such a bucket, Coker said. Tomato plants are susceptible to soil born diseases, so growing them in a bucket with drainage keeps them out of native dirt.

During the fall, leafy greens like Swiss chard and mustard are a choice in southern Mississippi. Greens such as those are easy to grow and are resistant to many diseases, Coker said.

“Greens actually like a bit of cold, so they actually tend to improve in flavor when the weather cools off,” Coker said.

Whether someone chooses to turn a small space into a garden with a raised bed of perennial herbs or with a solitary tomato plant in a five-gallon bucket, the act of gardening gives people something to care for and something to be optimistic about, Coker said.

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THE ARTS

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o matter how long a person steps away from their passion, the interest and their underlying skills remain, sitting dormant until reawakened.

Annette Lestremau studied commercial art and learned to use oils and watercolor at the John McCrady School of Art in the French Quarter in 1961. After the four-year course, Lestremau got married and became a mother. When her children were young, the paints and canvases were put away.

Lestremau neglected her artistic skills for 50 years.

At 71-years old, she enrolled in a drawing class at Pearl River Community College because her friends wanted to. The class reawakened Lestremau’s old skills.

“I always wanted to do portraits,” Lestremau said. “That’s my love.”

The class allowed Lestremau to work in graphite and try her hand at portraiture. The class’s teacher, Charleen Null, recognized Lestremau’s talent and pushed her to cultivate it.

The second semester taught colored pencil drawing and, at first, Lestremau wanted nothing to do with colored pencils.

“Colored pencil to me was kindergarten,” she said. “It’s what you did as a kid in school.”

Lestremau enrolled in the class anyway, because spending time with her friends sounded more fun than staying at home.

She complained at first, but each project taught her a little more about the slow and precise art of drawing with colored pencil.

Now, at 75, Lestremau creates portraits of family members with those same colored pencils she was at first so reluctant to use.

Lestremau bases her portraits off photographs. She creates a grid on the paper to ensure the portrait is proportional. The colored pencil pieces take three months to complete, Lestremau said.

“I want my colored pencil work to look like a painting, not colored pencil,” she said.

Capturing the correct coloring takes patience and perseverance. At first the blonde hair in a portrait of a friend’s daughter was too yellow, then too gray.

“With the wrong color, it wouldn’t look like her,” Lestremau said.

But Lestremau kept working, until the hue was accurate.

Finally, a combination of greens, sienna and blues created the right shades of pale blonde.

Although she’s never met the young blue-eyed girl in the portrait, friends say the piece captures the girl’s personality, Lestremau said.

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Colored pencil artists love to use tone paper—a dark colored drawing paper which allows her to add both lighter and darker colors to create an image. Lestremau replicates a pair of pelicans with white, gray and soft yellow on navy paper. She draws the underside of a blue crab on sandy brown tone paper.

Lestremau also creates three-dimensional artwork. Her lifelong love of birds and a woodworking class at the Senior Center of South Pearl River County has led her to create wooden birds to enter in local competitions.

Lestremau checked out the woodworking class to see if it might interest her retired husband. She never expected to take the class herself.

“I always thought woodworking was for men,” Lestremau said.

But Lestremau saw other women in the class and when her husband didn’t want to go, Lestremau decided to try it herself. Lestremau’s attention to detail makes her pieces stand out, she said.

Her first bluebird was not well carved, Lestremau said, but she placed the bird on a perch watching over a nest of light blue eggs and one beak breaking out of its shell. In the 14 FALL 2019

water below the birds, a tiny frog peeks from the surface.

Like a magician making the audience look one way to hide their sleight of hand, Lestremau used the nest and eggs to distract from the bluebird, she said.

Her woodworking projects highlight her attention to detail: such as a carving of a pair of four inch long salmon— one with crab legs coming out of its mouth and the other swallowing a smaller fish. She also made a carving featuring a tiny yellow butterfly floating in front of a rabbit and another piece with the shimmer of painted fish bodies in the water beneath a carved crane.

Sometimes her woodworking and drawing skills meet, like when Lestremau created a wood burning of the face of Jesus Christ.

“I thought I would attempt to do it as a thank you to God for giving me this talent at this stage of life,” Lestremau said.

Whether she’s working with pencil and paper or carving woodland creatures, Lestremau has an eye for detail and will work patiently to bring those details to life.

To contact Lestremau about her work, people can call her at 504-421-3123.

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long the streets of downtown Poplarville are many unique homes. Many of them have been standing for more than 100 years and serve as a reflection of times long past.

One such home sits on three acres of land in the heart of Pearl River County’s seat. It’s the home of Mona and Bob Jackson, retirees who still find things to do with their time to stay busy. Mona works as a nurse part time at the local hospital, while Bob looks for projects to complete in the yard around their historic home.

According to Mona’s research, the house was built in the early 1890s, and used to be a boarding house for lumberjacks who were employed as part of the then booming tung industry.

The 3,000-square-foot home has undergone some renovation since the Jackson’s took ownership in 1988, including replacing half of the more than 40 windows and installing sheetrock on most of the walls on the first floor to replace the aging paneling.

Mona said the couple bought the home to get away from the bustle of New Orleans so their youngest daughter wouldn’t be raised in the Big Easy. Prior to living in Poplarville full time, they had a weekend home in the city a short distance

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down the road from their current home, so they knew of the quiet life that can be found in Poplarville.

Inside, the home has four bedrooms and three bathrooms. Mona said that one of her favorite features of the home is the antique stained glass on several windows facing the street.

Hardwood floors cover the first floor, while pine adorns the upstairs. On the second level are three bedrooms and a bathroom featuring a clawfoot tub.

As visitors approach the main entry under the canopy of a large live oak tree, they are greeted with brick stairs in the shape of a semicircle and the stained glass adorned front windows.

On the first floor, the large kitchen has a staircase leading to the second floor, the second of such paths to the upstairs.

A large traditional dining room can be found just next to the kitchen decorated with period furniture.

A shed in the backyard houses all of Bob’s toys, while mature pecan trees dot the rest of the property.

Just outside the large living room, a small screened in porch offers a place to spend time during cool mornings or evenings. Bob said it’s one of his favorite places in the home.

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PEARL RIVER COUNTY FAIR AND RODEO

Families attended the annual Pearl River County Fair and Rodeo, which featured livestock competitions, rides and rodeo events.

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2. From left are Michelle Burge and Allie Burge.

3. From left are Emma Levens and Seth Lee. 4. From left are Maddie Blackwell, Emily Blackwell and Derick Blackwell.

5. From left are Leah Smith and Mavrick Smith.

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MONDAY NIGHT AT THE PARK Community members enjoyed an evening of Saints football at Crosby Commons.

1. From left are Ricky Silva and Nick Ray. 2. From left are Barrett Brayson, Jim Brister and Bill Cruse.

3. From left are Michelle Simmons, Bella Simmons and Bobby Simmons.

4. From left are Mara Davis, Stephanie Walker, Tisha Spiers and Teresa Bolden.

5. From left are Patti Bruno, Brinzleigh Smith, Shonna Temples, Britanny Smith, Jenny Burnette, Candis King, Lisa Mitchell, Connie Tucker, Paula Strain and Morgan Bilbo.

6. From left are Pamela Robin, Sarah Jarrell, Cristal Crawford, Corey Dorn and Cheryl Espino.

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REMEMBER THE PAST AT SHAW HOMESTEAD Attendees of this annual event got a chance to step back in time by touring the restored Shaw Homestead near Poplarville.

1. From left are Amantha Johnson and Lance McConnell.

2. From left are Carol Chaix and Michelle Chaix.

3. From left are Crystal Shaw Swilley and Elaine Shaw.

4. From left are Julie Brown and Jeff Rosenberg.

5. Pictured is Gail Ladner.

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OUT & ABOUT

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GREATER PICAYUNE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MORNING CALL/ JUST FOR FUN LUNCH

Members of the Chamber of Commerce attended one of the organizations regular events for food and networking.

1. From left are Mark Stockstill and Tammy Valente.

2. From left are Hannah Pearce, Henrietta Brewer and Lorri Stockstill.

3. Seated from left are Jack Weiss and Jill Mixon, standing from left are Stepheny Batcho and Cathy Tendorio.

4. From left are Heather Thomas and Denise Lauren.

5. From left are Jeremy Sheasby and David Allison.

6. From left are Carl Liberty, Melissa Morel and Gerri Liberty.

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OUT & ABOUT

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BACK TO SCHOOL EXTRAVAGANZA Community members celebrated the start of a new school year with a Back to School Extravaganza where free school supplies were provided.

1. From left are Charlie Wash and Donald Knox .

2. From left are Etta Scott and Rev. Donald Parker .

3. From left are Lorena Brown and Orlando Malley.

4. From left are Suriah Wright, Ebony Wright and Jaela Wright.

5. From left are Yvette Burton, Desmon Stubbs, Sadeidra Lindsey, Jasmine McCullough, Ashanti Wright, Karrin Williams and Jasmine Jackson.

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OUT & ABOUT

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MEET THE BLUE DEVILS

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Fans and parents of the Pearl River Central School District attended Meet the Devils to be introduced to this year’s sports and extra curricular participants.

1. From left are Cathi Tarter and Deanna Russell.

2. From left are Susie Lumpkin, Lacey Lee and Emily Polk.

3. From left are Sharon Rester, Rachel Morrison, Aimie Saucier and Donny Saucier.

FUMC BARBECUE

The First United Methodist Church Family Life Center hosted a barbeque where community members could learn about various organizations and programs offered to the community.

4. From left are David Delya, Joanne Michel, Geri Markham and Harold Markham.

5. From left are Linda Smith, Cheryl Watson and Phyllis Steelman.

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REPUBLICAN MEET AND GREET

Community members attended an event in Picayune to meet with Republican candidates just in time for the primary election.

1. From left are Blake Breland and Hannah Breland.

2. From left are John Branum and Farron Moeller.

3. From left are Lisa Beech and Nance Stokes.

4. Pictured is Ray Mitchell.

5. From left are Leilani Herrin, John Sullivan, and Ann Parker.

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109 Hwy 11 South • Picayune, MS

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WHY I LOVE PICAYUNE

BY ADRIENNE VARNADO PENLEY, DMD

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he people of Picayune are what make this city a great place to live. It is comforting to be surrounded by caring people that look out for one another. I was fortunate to have grown up in a caring and safe community.

Growing up in the community of Ponderosa, our neighbors were like family. I loved meeting my neighborhood friends for bike rides and playing softball in the empty lots.

I have fond memories of attending First Baptist Church of Picayune. I remember many Vacation Bible School days and being a part of children’s choir and hand bells.

I am thankful for the great teachers I had through my formative years at South Side Elementary, Picayune Junior High and Picayune Memorial High School. My high school years provided me with great memories of being on the Pride of the Tide dance/drill team for four years. Thanks to the leadership of Mrs. Betty Easterling and Jennifer Taggard, we won state and national championships my sophomore year. My first job at Pine Tree Lanes instilled in me a strong work ethic. My upbringing in the small town of Picayune gave me the educational foundation and confidence I needed to face the world. After moving away to further my education, I am honored to be back and serve the dental needs of my hometown community.

It’s great seeing the positive changes and improvements in Picayune. Our street festival continues to grow and I really enjoy taking my dog for walks at the beautiful Crosby Commons.

My involvement in the Greater Picayune Area Chamber of Commerce allows me to keep up with community events. I enjoy getting out to see familiar faces and meet new people.

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