Saturday, October 18, 2014 - 11:00am

DESCRIPTION
The old country stores along the back roads of rural Mississippi are the
treasures that remain of a bygone era. Travel back to the Mississippi
of yesteryear and hear of the deadly can of molasses that once caused a
massacre in Carrollton, Mississippi, in the late 1800s. Find the church
near Alstons General Store in Rodney with a Civil War cannonball lodged
in its front facade. Or discover the haunts of Causeyville General Store
among shelves and corners stocked with relics of the American past.
These and other stores remembered here by local author June Davis
Davidson were the cornerstones of their communities, and harken back to a
time when the sweetest things in life were the smell of peanuts
roasting and reaching into the penny candy jar.
Event address:
160 Courthouse Sq
38655-3914 Oxford
usBooks:
$19.99
ISBN: 9781626195929
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: History Press - June 3rd, 2014