(Written for The Meteor April 8, 2019) In appreciation of art month, this is the first in a series about artists and authors from this area. Flo Field Hampton was an author from Crystal Springs, born around 1905 to William Judson and Mary Cornelia “Mollie” Miller Hampton. The beautiful Hampton family home still stands on […]
(Written for The Meteor March 11, 2019) Nan McCluney passed away on December 31, 2018. With her passing the historic Dr. R. E. Jones House on Pearl Street has been placed for sale. The home of Dr. Robert Elam Jones and wife Elizabeth Ann McKey Jones has been in the same family since the late […]
(Written for The Meteor March 4, 2019) Excitement was in the air last Thursday at Camp Kamassa, a camp under construction near Calling Panther Lake which will serve adults and children with special needs. A large audience eagerly awaited the arrival of a Chinook helicopter to drop two, 28-foot, 10,000 lb. steel containers full of […]
(Written for The Meteor February 18, 2019) Thursday, February 21, is Mississippi’s Toughest Kids (MTK) Camp Kamassa Day at the state Capitol. At 10:00 a.m. on the second floor rotunda of the Capitol, a press conference will be held that day to announce an Air Drop Mission at the Camp Kamassa construction site in Copiah […]
(Written for The Meteor February 11, 2019) When was the last time you received a love letter? Not a card written by someone in a cubicle or a text message, but a handwritten sentiment of endearment. Most would say not in many years. Not to undermine the importance of progress and technology, but receiving a […]
(Written for The Meteor January 21, 2019) Many people from Crystal Springs own Weathersby baskets. Gigi Sullivan, Elizabeth Jones Horn, Betty Frizzell, Robert Sims, Susan Thomas Ware, Kay Pevey – they all have baskets made by Sanders Weathersby, and most likely there are many more. Weathersby was a third-generation basketmaker, having learned from his grandfather, […]
(Written for The Meteor January 21, 2019) The Huber-Messer House on North Jackson Street has a new owner. Yvonne Florczak-Seeman, from Chicago, Illinois, recently purchased the grand home built around 1900. Seeman grew up in Holland, Michigan, in a small town where life ran at a slower pace. She jumped at the chance to own […]
(Written for The Meteor November 26, 2018) Women have had the right to vote for close to 100 years. Passed by Congress June 14, 1919, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution which gave all women the right to vote was ratified August 18, 1920. It would be March 22, 1984 before Mississippi ratified the amendment, […]
(Written for The Meteor September 3, 2018) It was Christmas day, December 25, 1928, when Maj. Alton N. Parker, a native of Crystal Springs, became the first person to set foot on Antarctica. Parker had been on several expeditions with fellow explorer Richard Byrd. In May 1926, Byrd and fellow pilot Floyd Bennett were the […]
(Written for The Meteor August 27, 2018) Throughout its history, the county has had strong ties to education, especially the state’s institutions of higher learning. For example, Major Reuben Millsaps provided the initial donation for Millsaps College, and Annie Coleman Peyton veraciously lobbied for the creation of a female college, now Mississippi University for Women […]
