Port Gibson
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infrogmationNothing much is going on here in Port Gibson, Mississippi, which I suspect is the usual situation. Port "Too Purty To Burn" Gibson is home to mystery Loa, scarry looking but benevolent anthropomorphic pigs, and (temporarily) Louisiana evacuees.
Claiborne County Courthouse, yesterday, before the rains came in.
It's a pleasant enough looking old town, by local legend spared from the torch in the US Civil War as a Union general judged it "too pretty to burn" (?). The guesthouse we're in is nice, with good wi-fi, an old clawfoot bathtub, and a comfy big old 4-poster bed. They serve food that tends towards bland but is otherwise unoffensive. It's Bernheimer House, and is filled with fellow evacuees from New Orleans, Metairie, and New Iberia, Louisiana.
Across the street is a building labeled "Tower Loa".
As I'm pretty ignorant about Mississippi Voodoo, I can't tell you about the Tower Loa and related folk belief customs, no doubt a worthy topic of anthropological study.
As the weather is supposed to be getting worse tomorrow as bands from Gustav come through, we drove around some today. I was hoping for only intermittant rain, but as soon as we headed out the rain became generally continuous though fairly light. We often saw bands of clear sky in the distance, but never seemed to be out from under the clouds ourselves. We headed towards what seems Claiborne County's most famous site, the ruins of Windsor Plantation, but we hadn't been warned that it was up a gravel road some distance off the highway, and turned back after a couple turns up the gravel as the weather was getting worse. Back into town. We first went to the biggest retailer in the area, the Piggly Wiggly.
Alas, they closed at noon for Labor Day, but we got some supplies from their competition, the M&M Grocery.
We ordered pizza from a place next door that were were told by other evacuees was good. Yep, pretty good pizza.
And that's the news from Port Gibson, where the rain is strong, the town is too good looking to ignite, and all the evacuees are eating pizza...
Claiborne County Courthouse, yesterday, before the rains came in.
It's a pleasant enough looking old town, by local legend spared from the torch in the US Civil War as a Union general judged it "too pretty to burn" (?). The guesthouse we're in is nice, with good wi-fi, an old clawfoot bathtub, and a comfy big old 4-poster bed. They serve food that tends towards bland but is otherwise unoffensive. It's Bernheimer House, and is filled with fellow evacuees from New Orleans, Metairie, and New Iberia, Louisiana.
Across the street is a building labeled "Tower Loa".
As I'm pretty ignorant about Mississippi Voodoo, I can't tell you about the Tower Loa and related folk belief customs, no doubt a worthy topic of anthropological study.
As the weather is supposed to be getting worse tomorrow as bands from Gustav come through, we drove around some today. I was hoping for only intermittant rain, but as soon as we headed out the rain became generally continuous though fairly light. We often saw bands of clear sky in the distance, but never seemed to be out from under the clouds ourselves. We headed towards what seems Claiborne County's most famous site, the ruins of Windsor Plantation, but we hadn't been warned that it was up a gravel road some distance off the highway, and turned back after a couple turns up the gravel as the weather was getting worse. Back into town. We first went to the biggest retailer in the area, the Piggly Wiggly.
Alas, they closed at noon for Labor Day, but we got some supplies from their competition, the M&M Grocery.
We ordered pizza from a place next door that were were told by other evacuees was good. Yep, pretty good pizza.
And that's the news from Port Gibson, where the rain is strong, the town is too good looking to ignite, and all the evacuees are eating pizza...
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Date: 2008-09-01 08:48 pm (UTC)Well, looks like Gustav is more bark than bite. Hopefully you can head home soon.
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Date: 2008-09-01 08:56 pm (UTC)In Mesa, there is a strip mall called "Baseline Towers", in which the "towers" are simply tall skylights at various corners of the single-story complex. There's a karate place that I thought was karaoke for a long time.