Word: jacksonism
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...Reported by Alice Jackson Baughn/Ocean Springs, Paul Cuadros/Gainesville, Lisa Clausen/Melbourne, Jeanne DeQuine/Bahamas and Jeannie McCabe/Honolulu...
...With reporting by Alice Jackson Baughn/Ocean Springs and Michael Peltier/Pensacola
...Welty never married and lived alone - until several years ago when failing health demanded that she hire nurses and a caretaker - in the house she had occupied with her parents and siblings in the historic Belhaven section of Jackson, the state's capital. Nothing about the Tudor-styled house on the oak-canopied street alerted passersby to the status of Welty's literary existence. An oak tree planted by Welty's mother decades ago still stands in the front yard...
...pair of tickets to the state's Egg Bowl, the annual gridiron classic between the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University. That strong Southern accent delivered with her unique inflections drew her audience to a special place. The grande dame of American literature died Monday in a Jackson, Miss., hospital near the family home where she had lived for almost all of her 92 years. She was hospitalized with pneumonia on Saturday...
...John Ford homesteaders and more like Oliver Stone conspiracy theorists convinced the feds are on a land grab. The ranchers and loggers seem outnumbered by monument supporters (people who attended three public hearings seemed to favor the designation by a ratio of 2 to 1). But this week the Jackson County board of commissioners will make recommendations to Interior Secretary Norton, and it is expected that the wide-ranging public support will be tempered with the concerns of businesses...