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New data from the Census Bureau reported in today’s Sun Herald reveal that only one in five adult residents of South Mississippi’s largest cities have at least a bachelor’s degree.
The ambiance of travel changes whenever a driver leaves a regular public highway or road and enters the Natchez Trace Parkway. The 444-mile-long part of the National Park Service and designated national scenic byway links history, nature and the varying cultures of three Deep South states — Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee.
It is becoming apparent to many Americans in this high-tech era of the Internet, blogs, iPods, 24/7 cable “news” channels — and now, the biggest economic downturn in 70 years — that print journalism, namely newspapers, is becoming an endangered species.
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An object of much interest this morning is a large cypress tree that had floated ashore in yesterday’s stormy, flood tide. Lying well up on the beach, the tree attracts a number of beach walkers, who now stand beside it, examining the trunk, the leafless branches, and roots. It had been floating in the sea for a long time, because in places the trunk had been drilled by teredos. On the roots are several colonies of clustered barnacle shells. — Diary, autumn 2009
Dateline 1915 — Where’s the fire, chief?
