Hub City

Pine Belt in South Mississippi

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Club Swamp

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Downtown Hattiesburg

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Look at that Sky, Life’s Begun

Old Hattiesburg High School - Mississippi

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One of the best hidden places in Hattiesburg. Looking for cheap classics and paper backs. Check out the Book Rack.

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Books

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So am I...

But, I ain't gonna' die!

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Double U You Es M, for music

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Club Swamp

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Great outdoor hanging hammock-loft pop-up platform stage film shows, storytelling/ pupetry/ theatre

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Don’t be cruel, be a part of Oh, Jeremiah’s kingdom

Hailing from Hattiesburg, Miss., Oh, Jeremiah is a musical project from singer-songwriter Jeremiah Stricklin. Stricklin first caught the performing bug in a kindergarten talent show as a pint-size Elvis Presley impersonator. After receiving his first guitar at 11, Stricklin’s love for entertaining was amplified. Stricklin spent his teenage years honing his style and developed a […]

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Mississippi Fire-ant from Southern Prohibition Brewing, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. 8.0%ABV. 80 IBU’s. OG: 18 Plato. 

Southern Prohibition Brewing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi only opened thir gates in April of 2013, so they haven’t had a lot of time to dial their production in. They call this an Imperial Red Ale, and for good reason. The color is a dark, murky brownish red, with a big, frothy candy-white head which lingers and leaves plentiful lacing. The nose is sweet, caramely malts, and light hops. The taste is quite frankly, lovely. Now, if you’re a hop-head, into IPA’s with light bodies and lots of piney hops, a la Avery’s Dugana, you’ll be disappointed; that is simply not what this beer is all about. Big waves of caramel and roast malts roll over your tongue, with just enough hops not to let it capsize into  liquid toasted sugar. The hops are present, and in many other beers with this IBU they’d be at the forefront, but here they perform an unsubtle, muscular balancing-act. I couldn’t see myself drinking more than one of these 16oz’ers at a sitting; it would get too sickly sweet. But well chilled, left to warm in your glass, and quaffed in big greedy mouthfuls, it’s quite delicious. Actually, after sayibg all that, it is great when it warms to.. it takes on an almost chocolate-caramel flavor. By no means complex, refined or even special, this is nevertheless a very good beer, and I wish the brewery all the best on their future journey. I will have one again as soon as I can! Grade: Medium 4.

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Fireant: now sold in 12 oz. cans (for a little more than the 16 oz. cans sold for).

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#saenger #hattiesburg

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Saenger Theatre, Hattiesburg, Mississippi

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The Riches of Oseola McCarty

Evelyn Coleman

While retired laundress Oseola McCarty has become well known because of her endowment of a one-hundred-and-fifty-thousand-dollar scholarship fund to the University of Southern Mississippi, Coleman instead focuses upon the life and faith that made such a gift possible. Illustrated with handsome but appropriately modest block prints, the book, based upon interviews with McCarty, tells of Ola’s growing up in the care of her grandmother and her aunt, who took in laundry from Hattiesburg’s white citizens. While Coleman is honest about the oppressive Jim Crow laws under which Ola (born in 1908) and her family lived, her focus is on the pride the women took in their work. And rather than preach, she details that work (“Ola would tuck the corner of a sheet between the wringer’s two rollers”) with a respect that confirms its dignity. While Ola worked, she saved. And saved. And thus the scholarship endowment given upon the occasion of Ola’s retirement at the age of eighty-seven. The account is plainspoken and easy to read; the chapter-book format is appealing. Coleman evokes a world few contemporary children will know and introduces a heroine they will greatly admire.

  Simple Wisdom for Rich Living

Oseola McCarty

Inspirational insights from the author, a life-long Mississippi laundress, who in July 1995 at the age of eighty-seven gave $150,000 to the University of Mississippi to establish a scholarship fund and became a national heroine.

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“Paul MacLeod was Elvis Presley’s number-one fan, a self-designated job if there ever was one. He dedicated his life to Presley in a way that makes other legacies of cultish Elvis devotion—and there are many—seem like the work of Sunday hobbyists.” —Eileen Townsend attends the Absolute Auction of Graceland Too, Elvis Presley’s greatest shrine.

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California lawmakers proposed legislation Wednesday that would require parents to vaccinate all school children unless a child’s health is in danger, joining only two other states with such stringent restrictions.

Parents could no longer cite personal beliefs or religious reasons to send unvaccinated children to private and public schools under a proposal introduced after dozens of people have fallen ill from a measles outbreak that started at Disneyland. Mississippi and West Virginia are the only other states with such strict vaccine rules, though the California bill’s chief author said he would consider including a religious exemption.

Read more here.

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Betty Press: Mississippi: The Place I Live

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ROBERT AND WALTER SCOTT - WALNUT, MISSISSIPPI

I’ve known Robert and Walter Scott my entire life (33 years). My grandparents lived down County Road 222 in Walnut, Mississippi, and Robert would walk up the road to visit every day. I would see the brothers sparingly in the years my grandparents were there—only when my parents and I would visit a couple times a year. Usually, Robert would bring the mail or help my grandmother unload groceries.

Now my parents own the house and Robert still visits every day just to check in. At night he goes to his brother Walter’s house to keep him company. I try to visit home at least once a month to see family and I always go with Robert to Walter’s house to sit and talk. 

“The Story of Robert and Walter” is an on-going photojournalism project. I’ve been documenting the brothers for 15 years through images, interviews and audio recordings. My goal is to capture a dying culture in a rural Southern setting and to document the Scott brothers’ experience of growing up poor and black in a predominantly white Southern atmosphere. 

Robert and Walter’s father was a successful cotton farmer and well-respected in a community emerging from the years of slavery. They are the most interesting people, with a knowledge and intelligence about life sharpened by their experience of poverty. Robert says, “Money sure does make a fool outta people.” And he is right. Walter told me one day when the moon was a thin crescent hanging low in the sky that “that moon’s holdin’ water,” and sure enough, rain came the next day.

Robert just turned 83 and Walter is 87. They still go to the grocery store and keep an elaborate garden. Although it’s seemingly certain that somewhere down the line their ancestors were slaves, we’ve never spoken about it. Instead, we talk about the weather over warm Milwaukee’s Best beer and count how many cats are living under Walter’s house. 

Robert and Walter have taught me so much about life and happiness. They are the most joyful people I’ve ever known. It just so happens (yes, randomly), we have the same last name. And I do consider them family.

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Tennessee State Guide Lindsay Scott is an East Nashville-based photographer, writer, drinker and ponderer. You can find her on any random night, porch sitting with a side of story telling and a camera in hand. Follow her on Tumblr at lindsayscottphotography.tumblr.com or on her website, lindsayscottphoto.com, and visit her blog www.lindsayscottwrites.blogspot.com for further musings and ramblings.