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View Comments Experiencing Wall Doxey State Park in Holly Springs, which offers outdoor fun throughout nearly 800 acres of natural beauty, is a great bucket list item. If you need another reason to visit, look no further than Holly Springs Marshall Steakhouse. The famed restaurant is the recipient of numerous “best of” awards from the Mississippi Beef Council and Food Network, among others. To work up an appetite for a juicy steak, take a walk around the 60-acre, spring-fed lake at the center of Wall Doxey. Always curious about the unusual name, I recently learned namesake Wall Doxey was a local politician who served as both a U.S. representative and senator in the previous century. ....
View Comments The Second Annual Soul Food Fusion Festival is set to return to downtown Natchez the weekend of June 18-20 after the event was canceled last year due to the coronavirus outbreak. The Soul Food Fusion Festival is an enormous culinary and social experience that features the fragrance of conventional southern fare cooking, intertwined with memorable old stories, social expressions and music treatment from the assorted foundation of Natchez. Tickets for the event officially went on sale May 5. Weekend activities will kick off June 18 with the BBQ, Blues and Brews barbecue, where local blues legends in Mississippi are paid homage in the celebration of Juneteenth. June 19 will be the Soul Food Festival, which is the main event. June 20 will conclude the festival with the Lazy Magnolia Brunch. ....
View Comments It s hard for me to name just one place to visit on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Favorite spots are stretched from Jackson County to Hancock County, with plenty of places worthy of mention in sprawling Harrison County. But, I d be remiss if I didn t share the treasures across the Bay Bridge in Waveland. Many don t realize beautiful Buccaneer State Park is located on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. Nearby, culinary delights awaits at Rum Kitchen. Noticing a pirate theme in the names? Let me explain. Buccaneer State Park occupies a prime spot in the midst of large moss-draped oaks, marshlands and nearby sandy beaches. However, Mississippi technically can t boast of its discovery. It s been a favorite place to visit since the late 1700s, when French buccaneer Jean Lafitte and his followers were busy smuggling and pirating along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Lafitte set up his headquarters in the old Pirate House a short distance from today s park. ....