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New Heritage Travel Site, Gozaic
A friend recently sent me a link to the National Trust’s recently unveiled heritage travel website called Gozaic. According to the home page, Gozaic will let you: plan life-enriching travel and join a community that shares your passion for experiencing culture and heritage. Build your own custom itineraries exploring sites with stories to tell. Book … Continue reading
The Gavel Pounds for the Eola
The Eola Hotel in downtown Natchez is heading for the auction block in November (“Eola Hotel on Auction Block,” Natchez Democrat, Sept. 25, 2009). While this may appear to be cause for alarm, it may well be cause for celebration instead. The Eola Hotel, one of the cornerstones of downtown Natchez, will probably have a … Continue reading
MHT’s “Good Neighbor” Program
While MissPres was on vacation last week, I had more time to cruise around the vast wide world of the internet (always living out there on the edge). A post called “Donation of Historic Paint Colors Makes for a ‘Good Neighbor’ on the Gulf Coast,” written by former MHT president Lolly Barnes on the National Trust’s … Continue reading
MissPres News Roundup 9-25-2009
Well, there’s just too much preservation news to keep up with this week, so as of today the MissPres vacation is officially over. Sept. 11, 2009: According to the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, perhaps better known to you savvy online denizens by its hip internet name “NEMS360,” the J.J. Rogers building, built in 1901 and originally … Continue reading
Vacation Pics–Sunset in Old Biloxi
MissPres is on vacation this week, a vacation back in time down to the old Mississippi Coast.
Vacation Pics–Relaxing along the highway
MissPres is on vacation this week, a vacation back in time down to the old Mississippi Coast. Imagine the warm and gentle breezes as you sit relaxing with your friends in your red wooden chairs on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, the sun shining, the sky blue, the pine trees and live oaks shading you. And thousands of exhaust-spewing … Continue reading
Vacation Pics–Motoring along the shell road
MissPres is on vacation this week, a vacation back in time down to the old Mississippi Coast. Yes, motoring with your buddies along a shell road where the Gulf breezes frolic, riding in a car that has no shocks and incredibly thin tires–could there be anything better?
A Celebration and a Vacation
To celebrate passing the milestone of 10,000 views on the blog, which happened around 3 PM last Thursday (did anyone but me notice?), MissPres is taking a little vacation this week. Everybody deserves a little time off, right? And just in case you think I’ve become a lazy slacker, you can rest assured that in fact, I’ve … Continue reading
MissPres News Roundup 9-18-2009
This week’s News Roundup theme song is “Gulf Coast Highway.” If you’re the kind of person who sits around thinking, “I wonder what in the world is going on in the world of old historical buildings in Mississippi,” then stick around as we take a virtual tour around the state’s news this week. Sept. 11, … Continue reading
Remembering the Heidelberg
Mississippi State University Digital Archive CHARM Collection. Rand Clayton Papers. Photographer unknown. Taken 1963- date of subject is likely earlier. The image has been colorized. B/W original The Hotel Heidelberg was a fixture on Capitol Street for fifty five years. The hotel was opened by Roy and Cecil Heidelberg in 1922 , a modest building of … Continue reading
A Few Fall Happenings
Carrollton Pilgrimage A colleague showed me a nice little brochure yesterday for the Carrollton Pilgrimage and I wanted to make sure all MissPres readers got the news right away so you could plan ahead. Seems that for the first time maybe in 20 years, Carrollton is going to put on a big open house and is inviting … Continue reading
King Edward Update
And now, what you’ve all been waiting for . . . As mentioned several times in the last week, one of the prime attractions at this year’s 10 Most Endangered List Unveiling was a chance to peak inside the King Edward Hotel. All of us have been curious about what’s going on inside there, or … Continue reading
2009′s 10 Most Endangered List Unveiling Report
Last Thursday night, many people (possibly 400+? I’m a terrible judge of numbers) gathered at Union Station in downtown Jackson to witness the unveiling of the Mississippi Heritage Trust’s latest 10 Most Endangered Places list. This was the 10th anniversary of the list, and the highlight of the event was preview tours of the King Edward … Continue reading
MissPres News Roundup 9-11-2009
Another Friday, another MissPres News Roundup, just like clockwork, even though I’ve had a long and arduous week. This week’s featured song is “Nobody Knows the Troubles I’ve Seen.” August something: An article in the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal that I initially missed and which in Facebook-like fashion is dated “One Month Ago” tells of the possible … Continue reading
Know Downtown Jackson?
In the past several months, I’ve had occasion to be on top of the world–or at least of downtown Jackson–at least four times (that I can remember). Lucky for you I had my trusty camera in hand each time and snapped a few views of the skyline. Can you identify what buildings’ roofs I was standing on? … Continue reading
Newspaper Clippings: A Plea for North State Street’s Preservation
Earlier this year, as you may remember, a book from Arcadia Press authored by Todd Sanders of MDAH, looked at the history and evolution of North State Street from a corridor of antebellum and Victorian mansions to the commercial hodge-podge it is today. Well, rooting around in old vertical files, I came across this article or … Continue reading
A 10 Most Reminder and a New Addition to MissPres
Remember that the 10 Most Endangered Places Unveiling will take place at Union Station in downtown Jackson this Thursday evening. Don’t worry about what to wear–my tickets say “business casual” which I take to mean dressed up if you want, less-dressed-up if you want. You can buy tickets on the MHT website, or usually even at the … Continue reading
Happy Labor Day
For all those who, like me, didn’t really think Mississippi had labor unions, this little clip from the Dec. 8, 1946 edition of the Jackson Daily News about the Carpenters and Joiners new union hall on South State Street: It’s hard to believe it now, but this caption reminds us that at one time not … Continue reading
MissPres News Roundup 9-4-2009
The official sponsor of this week’s News Roundup is White Shoes: Wear ‘em While You Can. Well, after spending the last two weeks on the Coast, we have to bring ourselves back to reality and acknowledge that the rest of the state does exist. So, what’s going on out there? Aug 27, 2009: I don’t know … Continue reading
Katrina Survivors: Regular People Saving Their History
We’ve spent the last two weeks looking at lost landmarks and restored landmarks on the Coast after Katrina, but I wanted to end this series by recognizing that the vast majority of preservation work on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast since 2005 has been done by regular people fixing up their own houses, often under the most … Continue reading
Katrina Survivors: Charnley House(s), Ocean Springs
Those of us who had the opportunity to see the Charnley house and its small guest house next door with the Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) tour in 2003 were fortunate to walk through this amazing “beach house” and meet the owners, the Ruddimans. The Ruddimans had lovingly stewarded the house for most of … Continue reading
Katrina Survivors: Randolph School, Pass Christian
Randolph School (1928), Pass Christian, photo courtesy Fisk University Rosenwald Fund Card File Database Across the Coast, the railroad tracks formed a levee that protected the neighborhoods to the north from the massive storm surge of Hurricane Katrina. Waveland and Pass Christian were the exceptions to that rule. In Pass Christian, the surge was so … Continue reading
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