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MISSISSIPPI is a collection of 77 poems from James A. Autry's Nights Under A Tin Roof and Life After Mississippi. The author, a former U.S. Air Force pilot, newspaper reporter, national magazine editor and Fortune 500 executive, returns to his Mississippi roots to examine the forces which shaped him. Autry's narrative verse focuses on the rhythms of rural southern life, an odyssey of country funerals, weddings, church revivals, family reunions...

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Elise Winter, wife of former Mississippi Governor William Winter, tells how she set out to make the venerable mansion, built in 1842, both a home for her family and a center for the cultural life of the state. Includes menus and recipes, photos, and an Introduction by Willie Morris.

In "the finest evocation of an American boyhood since Mark Twain" (Sunday Times, London), Morris goes beyond "a simple retelling of what has happened to him . . . to explain in large part what was happening in the forties, fifites, and sixties" (New Republic).

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150 essays by Mid-South humorist Lydel Sims from his popular and entertaining weekly column, "Assignment: Memphis, " in The Commercial Appeal, illustrated with cartoons by Charles Nicholas which originally appeared with Sims' columns. In 1949 Sims began a career of writing about "things that make the rest of us scream." Fascinated with language and life's idiosyncrasies, he explored topics such as "Brainwashing Removes the Worry" and "Clothes ...

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