For a long time, Greenville has been one of my favorite towns for what I call “road food.” Over the years, on many visits, I’ve assembled a long list of local greats. There’s La Sierrita, a former truck stop that serves some of the best Mexican tortas I’ve ever tasted...
William Faulkner is often associated with Oxford, but his life began in a simple, white clapboard house in New Albany on the corner of Jefferson and Cleveland streets, one of the first homes built on the north side of the town. The house no longer stands—Faulkner’s...
Nothing like the real thing. Someone, somewhere in Laurel, is at work right now, that is, even as you read these words. It may be a contractor, tearing down old drywall in a soon-to-open boutique downtown, or maybe the town’s second-generation sign-painter—whose...
Somehow it was not until my second morning that I heard it: a few blasts of a horn, then a few more, a freight train rumbling past, like something out of a country song. This is the sound of McComb. Passenger trains once rolled through McComb at all hours, while...
