MFP Contributor
Jesse Betts, originally from Tupelo, Miss., first purchased Main Street Opry building in 1990 and opened it as a concert venue for family-friendly variety shows that included both country and gospel music and skits.
Stickball is a Native American sport where two teams of 20 to 30 players use sticks, named “kabocca,” to throw a small, orange ball at a pole that stands about 12 feet high. Each team defends a pole while simultaneously trying to hit the other team’s pole one hundred yards away with the game ball.
Dr. Shawn Lambert and his team will place Interactive panels at the locations of their digs, explaining the objects found there and the purposes of the buildings that once stood at their locations.
Li Ann Sanchez, a Mexican and Indigenous trans woman, was the guest of honor at the Immigrants Alliance for Justice and Equity “Queerceañera,” an LGBTQ reclamation of a traditional Latin quinceañera.
The photos in this gallery show the events that unfolded outside the Pink House on the day the Dobbs decision came down.
Calvin Hawkins has researched Black history in Yalobusha County for the last six years, and he is releasing a book entitled “Under the Dusty Sand” that contains much of his research.
Moms Demand Action and March for Our Lives co-sponsored a rally that gathered dozens of community members to hear a series of speakers and participate in chants for gun reform.
M.R. Hackman initially founded Sherman Creek Grocery as a country store in 1933. Currently, Dottie Wheeler runs the store.
Every Monday night, anywhere between 50 and 100 people come from as close as down the road in Carolina or from hours away in Northwest Alabama to pay $5 so they can play or listen to live music in the auditorium of the white-shingled community center.
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