Yesterday I wrote about Poverty Point State Historic Site. Today I am going to tell you about the place we stayed – close to the State Historic Site, but not connected to it – Poverty Point Reservoir State Park. Poverty Point Reservoir State Park is on the southern side of a human-made reservoir. The unusual …
From October 2014
Poverty Point State Historic Site
On a beautiful October day, when the temperature was approaching 80, Tom and I visited Poverty Point State Historic Site and National Monument in Louisiana. Poverty Point State Historic Site was the home of some of the oldest mound building people in North America. The people who built these mounds lived in this area from 1650 …
Mississippi Petrified Forest
As we were looking for things to see around Mississippi and Louisiana, we encountered a listing for something that we had never expected: the Mississippi Petrified Forest. We have visited the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona many times, but this was the first we had heard of a Petrified Forest in the eastern US. …
Paul B. Johnson State Park Mississippi
One of the things that Tom and I are really enjoying about our travels is the opportunity to explore small, out of the way places. For the most part, we try to stay in State Parks whenever possible. This allows us to experience an area thought to be of special beauty by the people in …
Delhi United Methodist Church
This morning we worshiped at Delhi United Methodist Church in Delhi Louisiana. Delhi is a small town, just off Interstate 20, with 3,000 residents. But it has a viable downtown, all the needed stores, banks, a pizza place and a cafe, and a Sonic. Along Main Street, LA 17, there are a string of churches. …
Hattiesburg Mississippi
We have been staying near Hattiesburg, Mississippi for the last week and have wandered into the city nearly every day: to go bike riding, go grocery shopping, do the laundry, attend church. So I can tell you a little bit about Hattiesburg, also called “The Hub City.” Hattiesburg was founded in 1882 and is named …
Ship Island, Mississippi
Yesterday Tom and I did an unusually touristy thing. During retirement we have tried to see places, as much as possible, as the natives do. But I wanted to go to the ocean and the Gulf of Mexico is only an hour from Hattiesburg, so we drove south to Gulfport. We left early in the …
Longleaf Trace
While in Hattiesburg, Tom and I took two days to ride the Longleaf Trace Bike Trail. Longleaf Trace is another beautiful Rail Trail – in fact, it is in the Rail-Trail Hall of Fame! Longleaf Trace runs from Hattiesburg to Prentiss Mississippi and was the first rail-trail in Mississippi – finished in 2004. Longleaf Trace …
Red Bluff: The Grand Canyon of Mississippi
A few years ago Tom and I discovered that almost every state has a place that it calls “the grand canyon of . . .” If you have been to Hawaii, the grand canyon of Hawaii is one of the main tourist attractions. And if you like state parks, you might have been to Little …
Heritage United Methodist Church
Today Tom and I worshiped at Heritage United Methodist Church in Hattiesburg Mississippi. Heritage United Methodist Church was not our first choice. We wanted to worship at the closest United Methodist Church, which would have been McLain UMC, but when I tried to find out what time the worship service was, the church didn’t have …