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Mississippi Seen

You’re not going to believe this

By Walt Grayson October 2024

If pressed, I would have to say this is my favorite time of year.

a set of old large rocks sitting on nicely trimmed grass
Mississippi Seen

Hot Times

By Walt Grayson September 2024
A musician plays guitar on a stage, crowd in the foreground dimly lit with the musician bathed in dark red light. Neon sign in the background that says Ground Zero Blues Club.
Mississippi Seen

Get Away, but Not Too Far Away

By Walt Grayson August 2024

We have been running a summer series of feature stories on WJTV called, “Gas Tank Get Aways.”

Old metal frame bridge in the distance extending over a country river.
Mississippi Seen

Time Runs While We Walk

By Walt Grayson July 2024

A few weeks ago, I planned to take a day off from anchoring the 4 p.m. news on WJTV.

A locust sitting on a stick
Mississippi Seen

13-Year Locust and other things that bug you

By Walt Grayson June 2024

We were in the cemetery at Ratliff when I heard my first 13-year locust this year.

Graveyard with multiple old grave stones, dirty and leaning different directions, in the fog with a crumbled building in the background.
Mississippi Seen

Community ‘Center’

By Walt Grayson May 2024

When I was in college, I preached every Sunday at Good Hope Baptist Church in north Madison County.

Stone statue of a knight, standing in front of a large stone grave marker.
Mississippi Seen

The Patriot

By Walt Grayson April 2024

Anybody who grew up in Greenville when I did had to have been aware of William Alexander Percy.

A dog painted green sits on top of a horse during a parade.
Mississippi Seen

Luck of the Irish

March 2024

It was over 40 years ago that Malcolm White and some of his friends invented Jackson’s St. Paddy’s Day Parade.

An old church on a hill on a rainy day.
Mississippi Seen

Speak of the Devil[ed Eggs]

By Walt Grayson February 2024

Deviled eggs are evidently a hot topic for a lot of people.

Closeup of a deviled egg, its filling sculpted into a spiral with a slight sprinkling of red paprika on top. Multiple similar deviled eggs out of focus in the background.
Mississippi Seen

As sure as eggs is eggs

By Walt Grayson January 2024

Miz Jo won’t let me help her cook anymore until I take a remedial course in math.

a petrified tree stump with a tombstone embedded, it says W. C. CUMMINGS SR., JAN. 10, 1875, MAY 31, 1952.
Mississippi Seen

My favorite Christmas gift

By Walt Grayson December 2023

I was rummaging through some of my old television video files the other day.

single tombstone of James D
Mississippi Seen

You’re never all that far from home

By Walt Grayson November 2023

We got to see authentic windmills and original Rembrandts and castles, cathedrals, and churches. 

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