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BACK ROAD BISTROS: Phillips Grocery

BACK ROAD BISTROS: Phillips Grocery

by Julian Brunt | Photos by Julian Brunt

Feeling nostalgic and in the mood for a good old-fashioned burger? Stop in Phillips Grocery in Holly Springs. Built as a saloon in 1882 by a returning war veteran, it thrived until Prohibition, when it was then turned into a grocery store. The Phillips family...

TALK OF THE TOWN: Marlo Dorsey

by Sandra Massey Buckley

As executive director of VisitHATTIESBURG, Marlo Dorsey is promoting the Hattiesburg community as a destination for tourism and business travel—and the city is experiencing record numbers of visitors from around the United States and the world. Thanks to tourism...
SMALL TOWN SPOTLIGHT: New Albany

SMALL TOWN SPOTLIGHT: New Albany

by Boyce Upholt | Photos by Boyce Upholt

William Faulkner is often associated with Oxford, but his life began in a simple, white clapboard house in New Albany on the corner of Jefferson and Cleveland streets, one of the first homes built on the north side of the town. The house no longer stands—Faulkner’s...
BACK ROAD BISTROS: Crechale’s Café

BACK ROAD BISTROS: Crechale’s Café

by Julian Brunt | Photos by Julian Brunt

Bob Crechale is quick to tell you that his name may be on the door, but it is his staff that has made all of the difference. As popular as Crechale’s is—and in the 62 years that it has been open—the longevity of its employees is nothing less than astounding. From the...
SMALL-TOWN SPOTLIGHT: Laurel

SMALL-TOWN SPOTLIGHT: Laurel

by Boyce Upholt | Photos by Boyce Upholt

Nothing like the real thing. Someone, somewhere in Laurel, is at work right now, that is, even as you read these words. It may be a contractor, tearing down old drywall in a soon-to-open boutique downtown, or maybe the town’s second-generation sign-painter—whose...
Small-Town Spotlight: McComb

Small-Town Spotlight: McComb

by Boyce Upholt | Photos by Boyce Upholt

Somehow it was not until my second morning that I heard it: a few blasts of a horn, then a few more, a freight train rumbling past, like something out of a country song. This is the sound of McComb. Passenger trains once rolled through McComb at all hours, while...
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