Champion Bulldogs: Thousands celebrate Dawgs with parade, ceremony Players and coaches for the Mississippi State University baseball team ride on fire trucks through the streets of Starkville on Friday afternoon in a parade celebrating their winning of the College World Series. Thousands of fans lined the streets and followed the team to Dudy Noble Field for a celebration. Chris Jenkins/Special to The Dispatch
Like a storm, it had been building all day.
By 3:30 p.m. Friday, as Mississippi State fans scurried to purchase their national championship hats, T-shirts, caps and more at Maroon & Company apparel store before the start of the evening’s festivities, clerks and managers were laboring to keep the checkout lines moving as customers stood in line six or seven deep.
Monday Profile: Oak Hill Academy art teacher goes ‘extra’ mile for role in ABC series Christi Dubois is in her fifth year as high school art teacher at Oak Hill Academy in West Point. Dubois recently traveled to Greenwood and Durant to be a “featured background” actor for the ABC series “Women of the Movement,” a six-part program centered on Emmett Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. Theo DeRosa/Dispatch Staff
Christi Dubois barely got to meet her husband.
Ushered aboard a train car at the Durant Central Illinois Railroad Depot, Dubois took a seat. Next to her was a man she’d never met. He, Dubois was informed, was her husband.