btw ...I was just in Texas with my two oldest boys visiting my uncle at his farm in the NE near Gilmer-Gladewater.
Hot...whew and sticky.
I had not been to TX in 8 years and yet as a boy I went there more than anywhere.
We stopped at Vicksburg on the way down near where my family has been 200 years and did the military park....the kids loved it. I had not seen it in decades.
But man.....the Visitors Center was very very PC...worse than if a south hating freeper had designed it..lol
I left the center in disgust trying to explain the problem to my kids....the usual unteaching all that drivel that get bombarded with.
It’s not surprizing that the Visitor’s Center at Vicksburg is now PC. It’s that way at all the NPS Battlefields now, I understand. And it pisses me off to no end.
I worked with a guy from Vicksburg in Houston for several years. Great guy. One of my best friends is from Meridian.
Also, a large part of my family stayed in Mississippi for a generation or two in Atalla County as they were wandering across the South from Va. and N.C. before they eventually landed in East Texas. (Some of ‘em may still be there).
My Mothers family, a mixture of New Orleans Urbanites and S. La. Rice Farmers, had a summer home in Bay St Louis.
So I have a lot of connections to Mississippi and love the place.
I want to go back over to Biloxi and check out the restoraion of Beauvoir this summer. (I have a large print of the house on my Den wall) I dread seeing all of those beautiful homes and trees gone though.