Mississippi State University - Reveille Yearbook (Starkville, MS)

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MONTEIGNE, home of Confederate General William Martin, whose features are carved on Stone Mountain. Although this was a most fascinating -graT+ efe i - was only one common form of erAeriAghmept, — the river showboat. These traveling theatre in reality were, offered the people music, and not infrequently learned timely subjects. Following boom ' down the Mississippi, Ohio, Arkansas, Rivers, these showboats became an tution of American life. It wa tnrolugh matic centers that such plays M rama eptkbfftsfu: flu whj h ihey , numet, c iscussions on easDns up a a id Missouri ttsfi4drtnsti- 1 — |i Elmo and Madcap Margary, ' f fJ trusty n i « r; ,j TrWiiinOTftWiif wiwf ra o tirl . -.■ . il ui j M o f lefeys TBIb w — I r every house and store pours out a human contribu- moving. ' Ura y ; f carts men, boys, l a l l qo -frarryiTtg from many quarters to a - comma rrcenter, the wh a rf. s 7 sembled there, the people tasten lheir eyes upon the coming boat as upon a wonder they are seeing for the first time. And the boat is a rather handsome CONNELLY ' S TAVERN, on Ellicott ' s Hill. It was here that Aaron Burr plotted against the U. S. govern- ment.

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X 11 ■:..■■■ A las-ting monument -to the culture of the Old South Mrs. Ferriday Burns, President of Natchez Trace Associate - 7 J IE MlSSIKtPW iVBfjunwKs the length of the western boundary of thig-Siat has been the most im- portant single fact x in tKe shaping -of bk£ destiny of the commonwealth. It is fitting, therefore, tWam this edi- ... y . . . .. . x tion honor period rr ost glamorous, the most picturesque itebellum Mississjp-piT ' Certainly is $s m t-glonqra, the most ing period of fife in the State, when this was rain of large planters, representing the true South- j 3enftlemah, living a leisurely life amid luxurioussurV roundin gs. This Mississippi planter, owner of thousands of acres andrnany slaves, entertained gracious mansion, set beneath aged oaks, and am d snow-white cojltpn ' .MP ■ ? , ■ - ' ■■-■ •? ' ■ % % JfrJ j k r £ i . J » 1 I. 1 . T-iZL ' : .Sa ' ; ' -: : : King and Queen of the Spring Pilgrimage

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STANTON HALL, erected in 1815, is completely furnished with furniture shipped from Europe. Ruins of BOWLING GREEN, inspiration for Stark Young ' s So Red the Rose. Burned in the Battle of Woodville, 1863. sight, too trim and ped chimjj some cind ■ ful Jilot- { ' e and sharp and tall, fancy-top- ■ gildsd device of las gilded rayflAboye brea with the (aoiler decl the t s merfteeP With is a flag(gallant staff ithe i fires gj black (SHJpass by thenSrabe of all cjrqat vo smokd hite ing.fr urnace, brct ' ye s ne decjtf and ancK orna- rgs; there Vn the jack- en and the :rdecks are iptain stands ing, the envy les of the blackest md tumbling out of f 1 i the cnimnays — a husbanded grandeur creafced witn a bit x f mjch-pine just be- fore arriving at a town; the crew are grouped at a 1 forecastiV; the broad stage is tin far outV ver tha port bow, and m nvied deck ' -Riand ' stamds picturesquely or the end of itVirb a lepil of rope in is screaming through the pejst the captain