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48 Hours in Oxford, Mississippi

48 Hours in Oxford, Mississippi

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It’s late afternoon, and heat lies over Oxford with heavy, thick, impenetrable indolence. Earlier, girls in Daisy Dukes and baby doll dresses, armed with Estée Lauder bags and the confidence of youth, rambled along Courthouse Square like Confederate roses, shopping while their boyfriends — suitably attired in seersucker shorts, pastel polos, and loafers — lolled on benches, consulting iPhone itineraries and watches with enough dials to command a small flotilla.… Read more

48 Hours in Meridian, Mississippi

48 Hours in Meridian, Mississippi

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It’s the high lonesome of a freight train’s whistle on a cold night. It’s the low-down gut growl of homegrown blues wafting through a breezeway, mingling with the scent of fried green tomatoes and collard greens.… Read more

48 Hours in Greenwood, Mississippi

48 Hours in Greenwood, Mississippi

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Greenwood is pitch dark tonight. The kind of dark where you can almost hear the cotton stirring in its bolls and the corn straining to reach the heavens.… Read more

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Carmen K. Sisson is a native and resident of the Alabama Gulf Coast and has more than three decades of award-winning journalism experience covering the American South. When not on assignment, she is usually photographing her food, getting lost on the backroads, or roaming the beach.

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