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The Bookseller Who Helped Transform Oxford, Mississippi
Again then, there was no motive to consider that Howorth would assist preserve the household’s literary custom alive. He wasn’t a lot of a reader—or, for a very long time, a lot of an something. There are 5 Howorth brothers, and Richard is the center of them. Two moved away, one to turn out to be a lawyer on Wall Road, the opposite to turn out to be an architect in New Orleans; two stayed in Oxford, one overseeing admissions on the College of Mississippi, the opposite working a legislation observe on the town earlier than serving three phrases because the Lafayette County Circuit Courtroom choose. Howorth wasn’t positive if he needed to remain or go, and he wasn’t positive what he needed to do along with his life.
“I used to be directionless,” Howorth mentioned. “Fortunately, my older brother at all times had these massive concepts and schemes about what we must do, like becoming a member of the circus.” David, that brainstorming massive brother, had at the least one barely extra sensible thought: all all through their childhood, he had mentioned that the city of Oxford actually must have a bookstore, partly due to Faulkner and partly due to the college, however principally as a result of any city price residing in wanted to have a spot to purchase books. “I used to be by no means a very good scholar in highschool or faculty,” Howorth mentioned, “however I managed to graduate, and I saved occupied with David’s bookstore.”
“David’s bookstore” turned Sq. Books, in 1979. Satisfied it might want foot visitors to outlive, Richard went in search of a retail house however couldn’t discover something appropriate till one other one among his aunts, Vasser Bishop, provided a second-floor walkup subsequent to Neilson’s division retailer. The daughter of an English professor who as soon as gave Faulkner a D, Bishop charged her nephew lease, however volunteered her time on the bookstore.
Lisa, Howorth’s spouse, took shifts as nicely. Initially from Chevy Chase, Maryland, she had discovered her strategy to Oxford from San Francisco within the early seventies by way of a Volkswagen bus, ditching the California scene after it acquired “very darkish and really bizarre,” heading South on a lark after remembering how a lot she had beloved studying Faulkner in highschool. “I didn’t know a soul right here,” she mentioned. “I fell in with a handful of hippies. They’d a home close to the college, an outdated home the place we had a bunch of events, and that’s the place I met Richard one loopy evening.”
Howorth wasn’t a daily at that social gathering or some other, however he was taken by the intelligent, lanky woman with the home cat she had skilled to do tips. Inconveniently, he was about to take off for the very coast Lisa had currently deserted: “I had this buddy whose sister lived out in Oregon, and we went on the market and labored at a window-shade-manufacturing plant,” Richard mentioned. “I used to be afraid I wouldn’t ever see Lisa once more, so I wrote her this letter, saying I needed to remain in contact, and I left it for her on the massive home. And, the following morning, I rise up on the break of day to drive West, and there’s this letter on my windshield, and I inform my buddy that I’m not opening it till we’re a couple of states away.”
Howorth learn the letter as quickly as he crossed the third state line. Though her emotions matched his almost sufficient, it nonetheless took him a couple of weeks to name the quantity she’d given him. When he got here residence to Oxford a couple of months later, the very first thing he did was go away once more, for Washington, D.C., the place Lisa had returned to be along with her household. She finally got here again to Oxford with Richard, and so they acquired married there earlier than settling for some time in Washington, the place they acquired their begin in bookselling, at Georgetown’s Savile E book Store. “Extra cease than begin,” Richard jokes, since a part of what the couple did throughout their two-year apprenticeship was assist shut the place down. “It was an amazing retailer in its day—it actually was, but it surely was on its final legs, and after they determined to shut the shop we stayed lengthy sufficient to shut it.”
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Mississippi Valley State University’s band is set to perform at the 60th Presidential Inauguration Parade.
President-elect Donald Trump invited Valley’s “Mean Green Marching Machine” to perform at the event in Washington, D.C. on January 20.
The band has played on several stages, including NBA games, the Rose Bowl Parade, New Orleans Mardi Gras parades, and the National Showband Battle of the Bands.
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JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Miss Mississippi Becky Williams and Miss Mississippi’s Teen Brooke Bumgarner will head to Orlando, Florida Friday for the Miss America competition.
The national competition begins December 31st and Bumgarner hopes to make history by becoming the first national winner for this state in the teen competition. Williams hopes she will be the candidate to win Miss America since the last state winner in 1986 when Susan Aikin won the Miss America Crown.
On New Year’s Eve, the Miss America contestants, including Miss Mississippi Becky Williams will arrive in Orlando. Miss America 2025 will be crowned January 5th. There have been four winners from this state including, Mary Ann Mobley, Lynda Lee Meade, Cheryl Prewitt, and Miss America 1986 Susan Aiken.
Williams said, “The Miss Mississippi Corporation has changed my life. My experience in competing just these three years has been life-changing. I’m not the same person I was when I started and to even have the opportunity to compete at Miss Mississippi is one thing. To win is another and on top of that, I get to represent my entire state. I get to represent the volunteers of Miss Mississippi. I get to represent the state of Mississippi.”
Williams has been preparing for the national competition since she was crowned in June. She has also kept busy promoting her Community Service Initiative Make a Move.
“Preparing for Miss America has been a little different than getting ready for Miss Mississippi because now I am Miss Mississippi and it’s a full-time job. I’m on the road, I’m all across the state throughout my entire year, so these past six months I’ve been every which way but still fitting in time in dance studios across the state. I’m so thankful to my dance families in Meridian, in Hattiesburg, and in Jackson for giving me the space to practice, so that’s been really helpful but you know when it comes to interview prep, when it comes to doing the job of Miss America, I’m getting ready every single day because that’s what I do right now as Miss Mississippi”, said Williams.
The first night of the preliminary competition for Miss America’s Teen is New Year’s Eve. Brooke Bumgarner of Madison has been preparing and is hoping to make history as the first winner for Mississippi.
Bumgarner said, “She will win a $50,000 dollar scholarship which is an incredible blessing and she also wins a year-long of experiences that not everybody gets to take on and that’s such a rare opportunity and it’s been such an honor to watch the new leadership at Miss America really take our program to the next level and allow Miss America’s Teen to go through so many incredible life-changing experiences.”
Preliminary competition for Miss America begins New Year’s Night. The teen winner will be crowned January 4th.
“Only 51 girls a year are going to be able to go to the national pageant and that’s, it’s incredible to think that I am one of those 51 and I have the opportunity to make friends with people from all across the nation”, said Bumgarner.
The New Miss America will be crowned Sunday, January 5th.
Williams said, “You know it’s so humbling to be able to say that I’m the face of Mississippi when it comes to this competition so I get the chance to show everyone what we have to offer.”
The new Miss America will be awarded 60 thousand dollars in scholarships. This will be the 103rd Anniversary for Miss America which is the world’s largest scholarship program for women.
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Natchez man dies after jumping off overpass in Vicksburg – Mississippi's Best Community Newspaper
Natchez man dies after jumping off overpass in Vicksburg
Published 5:05 pm Thursday, December 26, 2024
NATCHEZ — A Natchez man Thursday morning jumped to his death from an overpass in Vicksburg, said Adams County Sheriff Travis Patten.
Patten said the Warren County Sheriff’s Office notified him of the incident this morning.
Gary Wills
“I received a phone call this morning from Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace about the incident that occurred in Vicksburg,” Patten said. “After Sheriff Pace described the incident that took place, we immediately sent deputies out to do a welfare check that turned into a death notification.”
The man, identified by Patten as Gary Wills, 57, had been missing from his family since Wednesday.
“This is not the kind of news you want to deliver to any family, but it has to be done out of necessity, and our hearts go out to his daughter and family,” he said.
Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said his office received a call at about 10 a.m. Thursday.
“We responded to do a welfare check on a white male pacing back and forth on the overpass that crosses over U.S. Highway 61,” Pace said, referring to the Culkin Road overpass “As deputies approached the individual to ask if he was OK, he jumped off the bridge, landing on U.S. 61 below.
“Deputies were able to get to him immediately, and an ambulance arrived within minutes. He was transported to Merit Health River Region Hospital, where he died a short time later,” Pace said.
He said a vehicle was found parked nearby.
“The registration of that vehicle led us to Natchez. The Adams County Sheriff’s Office was able to locate the family and positively identify the victim for us. He had no identification on his person,” Pace said.
Wills was the owner of Creative Exteriors in Natchez.
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