Cissye Meeks Gallagher—Delta Golf Legend
By Mark H. Stowers Her late father placed a golf club in her hands almost as soon as she could hold one, setting in motion a lifelong love for the game. Growing up in Greenwood, Cissye Meeks Gallagher found in golf a passion that would carry her from the Mississippi Delta […]
Painted in Possibility
By SUSAN MARQUEZ • Photography by AMELIA J. MOORE How Lauren Dunn turned her Delta roots and love of color into whimsical works of art As a child growing up in Leland, Lauren Dunn cannot remember a time when art was not a part of her life. “I watched a show on TV that […]
Trading Spaces
BY JIM BEAUGEZ Cleveland native Will Tims sets his Delta roots in Midcoast Maine, where he renovated and reinvented a historic inn with a story of its own Just inland from Penobscot Bay on the rugged central coast of Maine, a turreted stone mansion rises among the hills along state Route 1. Long […]
Daddies, Daughters, and Ducks
By JOEY LEE • Photos courtesy of JOHN MONTFORT JONES The Delta’s Sweetest Hunting Tradition There’s something special about the bond between daddies and daughters. Some would say it’s almost as strong as the bond between daddies and—duck hunting. And there’s one local crew of girl dads who are strengthening that bond by sharing […]
From the Delta to the Stars
By BARBARA TRAVIS The Literary Journey of Amy Vincent Mississippi loves its writers and vows there’s “something in the water” that inspires them. That may very well be true, especially in the Delta, where storytellers reign supreme. And now a fresh spotlight is shining on Mississippi writers and the stories they tell. One […]
The Wild One
By JIM BEAUGEZ Webb Wilder celebrates the music of his native Mississippi from behind the mic—on stage, in the recording studio, and over the airwaves Sonic chameleon that he is, a guy like Webb Wilder doesn’t overthink where his pioneering Americana sound comes from. To him, the source is obvious: It’s Mississippi. […]
Merriment in Merigold
By TERRI GLAZER • Photography ANNA CATHERINE BOOTH Celebrated Southern design duo of Parker Kennedy Living team up with Jenny Smith of Merigold to host a festive workshop full of laughter, style, and seasonal sparkle “It really is an amazing kind of experience creating these little environments where everybody’s happy. You look around—everybody’s […]
Blending Nature and Nostalgia—The Art of Adam Trest
By CAYMAN CLEVENGER Take one step inside the historic heart of downtown Laurel, Mississippi, and Adam Trest’s studio feels instantly alive—a living aviary stitched together in paint. A flash of a fishing net cuts through the air, a great blue heron rises from a painted marsh with slow, deliberate grace, and a scarlet […]
Q & A with Kristy Bridgers
For Kristy Bridgers, life looked picture-perfect from the outside. She was healthy, active, well-connected in her community, and living in one of the South’s most vibrant college towns. But beneath the surface, she knew something was off. Social gatherings, weekends, and celebrations all seemed to revolve around alcohol—and she began to question the role it […]
Cowbells & Communion
By MORGAN MCHANEY • Photos courtesy of VISIT STARKVILLE Fall weekends in Starkville, where tradition finds its second wind