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 …

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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. …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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