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- Dressed as a clown, Alinda Cruise (now White) cuts up at the 1980 Heritage Days.
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Liberty Heritage Days has long, colorful history
By ERNEST HERNDON - Outdoors Editor
Sat,04/30/22-6:00AM, 667 Reads
When I first heard about this year’s Liberty Heritage Days Festival, scheduled for next weekend, I noticed it was billed as “44th annual — since 1978.” That couldn’t be right.
I remember covering the first Heritage Days, and it was 1979 — my first year at the newspaper.
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- Bernell’s grandmother, Anna Lea McGehee, stands by covered wagon in 1959.
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Old wagon evokes memories of pioneer past
By ERNETS HERNDON - Outdoors Editor
Sat,04/09/22-6:00AM, 733 Reads
Sometime in the late 1700s or early 1800s the Talbert family arrived in Liberty in a covered wagon.
“Most of them came from Georgia and the Carolinas like most everybody else around here,” said descendant Pat Talbert, who is the mayor of Liberty.
Now that wagon sits intact in the old Clinton McGehee dairy barn in town.
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History Is Lunch: Daniel de Visé, "The Rise and Reign of B.B. King"
By PRESS RELEASE - MDAH
Thu,10/14/21-9:36AM, 1,879 Reads 17,647 Statewide
On October 13, 2021, Daniel de Visé discussed his new book King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King as part of the History Is Lunch series.
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- Public-private partners have put around $1 million into the Up in Farms Food Hub, with the goal of getting more locally grown produce into the commercial marketplace. The project, which operated for just one season since it began, is part of the Soul City Hospitality parent company. Chains and a padlock held the door to the building closed on Oct. 7, 2021. Credit: Anna Wolfe, Mississippi Today
They took welfare money to turn ugly produce into meals, but fed no one
By ANNA WOLFE - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,10/08/21-1:36PM, 2,558 Reads 17,267 Statewide
Nonprofit founder Nancy New handed restaurateur Jeff Good a check for $200,000 and then ghosted.
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