For Mullins Doles, Christmas season begins in January. That’s because Doles has an avocation rare for Mississippi: he raises Christmas trees. Just after the holiday season has ended for the rest of the world, Doles tucks 600 seedlings into the soil of his 40-acre...
I used to live in an old farmhouse in the Mississippi Delta. It was a drafty place, cold in winter, but still I loved it, largely because of the view: my landlord kept horses penned in the wooded pastures surrounding the house. Watching their tails flick as they...
