Mississippi State is celebrating Earth Week, culminating with Earth Day Saturday [April 22], with a variety of student- and community-focused activities.
Carlton Owen, former Alumnus of the Year and Alumni Fellow for Mississippi State’s College of Forest Resources, presents the 2023 Carlton Owen Lecture next Thursday, April 20.
Mable Owens Clarke is the sixth-generation steward and matriarch of Soapstone Baptist Church in the rural Pickens County community of Liberia. In 1999, a few days before she died at the age of 104, Mable’s mother, Lula Mae, made her daughter promise never to let the historically Black church close.Mabel, along with Carlton Owen, President of the Soapstone Preservation Endowment, join Walter Edgar this week to tell the remarkable story of how she set out to keep that promise through her monthly, fundraising fish fries held at the church - and how word of her delicious, traditional foods spread the word about Soapstone Church around the world.