Gordon Cotton
Gordon Cotton is an author and historian who lives in Vicksburg. His stories appear each Sunday in The Vicksburg Post
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UTICA — As David Pollard watched a TV special about the children’s hospital in Jackson, he was so moved, so saddened that he wanted to do something for the youngsters to make them smile and laugh, ...
Paper, scissors are his keys to creativity
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This appropriately timed column is being reprinted. • Christmas hasn’t always been the celebration time that it is today, especially for a planter who lived south of Vicksburg on Fisher’s Ferry r...
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“I hear a boat coming,” an excited little black girl told the two Confederate officers who sat in their shanty on Christmas Eve 1862, playing cards. “Marse Ainhart, you and Marse Daniel better come...
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They were born in Vicksburg 61 years ago on Christmas Day, 5 minutes apart, went to local schools, then to Hinds and Memphis State, but for the past 15 years the Hoxie boys, David and Danny, haven’...
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NITTA YUMA — He says he lives in two worlds. One is a Delta plantation thoroughly immersed in history and folklore; the other is geared to the modern world of technology at the touch of a fingert...
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It was art on parade.
Or, more aptly said, art on the move.
And it was a sight never before seen on the streets of Vicksburg, something that really did stop traffic as about 75 people bearing vario...
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When Elzene Bell recently met someone else named Elzene, she said she was “so surprised I didn’t know what to do. I had never run across another Elzene.” The other Elzene recently moved to Aldersga...