With the thought of the spring season becoming a reality on March 20, I realized that as Mississippians we did adhere to the practice of counting the seasonal changes due
With the thought of the spring season becoming a reality on March 20, I realized that as Mississippians we did adhere to the practice of counting the seasonal changes due
Whatâs in a name like âyonderâ? I went out the back door and said that Iâm going through Hurricane and on âup yonderâ to Sand Springs for the big hill on Graham Road that should be the perfect sledding venue for the âgrandarlinsâ that were looking for a place to ride on Monday, January 11. If thatâs not ok, I will travel on to Smoke Top as that is the granddaddy of the local North Mississippi hills and on to Lafayette Springs or Denmark near Oxford for the quest. Then I thought about âdown yonderâ as you can travel to the Tallahatchie River Bottom via Rocky Ford and beyond to Riverside or the old Graham Lake area as the Bagley Fire Tower had height there on that hill as I began to reminisce about hunting there one New Yearâs Day with my dad in the early 1960âs. Then âover yonderâ near the Lappatubby Creek and before the Tallahatchie River is a land area that is called the Flatwoods that also bo