Watch For Turns

Watch for turns. They can sneak up on you without warning.

Grain Elevator

USS Cairo

Vicksburg National Military Park > USS Cairo Gunboat

The USS Cairo is one of seven steam-powered ironclad gunboats designed and built by James Eads for the Union Navy during the US civil war. All seven gunboats were built within 100 days.  The Cairo was sunk by a mine in December 1852 on the Yazoo River.  The wreck was discovered in 1956, and raised -- in pieces -- 102 years after she sank.

Yazoo Canal

Be Safe, Not Sorry

Vicksburg Riverfront Murals

Unattractive concrete flood walls protect many river towns from river flooding. After a visit to the flood wall murals in Paducah, Kentucky, a group of Vicksburg, Mississippi, residents championed a similar project in Vicksburg.

Since 2002, the flood walls along the Yazoo River in Vicksburg have served as a canvas for capturing images of history and life in Vicksburg.

Yesterday's Children

Yesterday's Children Doll and Toy museum exhibits the late Carolyn Bakarich's huge doll collection. She opened the museum after her husband told her to do something about the collection that was overtaking their home, so that he could have a place to sit. The museum has been delighting visitors since 1986.

Sophia bought a doll before we left. I hope it isn't the start of a new collection.

If you charge admission, it isn't hoarding? Right?

 

 

 

Monsour's At The Biscuit Co

We selected Monsour's At The Biscuit Company for lunch based on location alone. We were hungry and it right there -- on our path walking to our next destination. We were hot and hungry. Any place with air conditioning and food would have been good enough.

I ordered the Muffuletta and Sophia ordered the Jambalaya -- both New Orleans dishes. The food was good in that it met our needs for sustenance, but it came no where close to what we expected after several days in New Orleans. 

The Muffuletta sandwich tasted like a cheap bologna sandwich on white bread. There was barely enough olive salad on top to tell that it was there. This was perhaps the most expensive bologna sandwich I've ever consumed. 

The air conditioning and cold drinks in the middle of a hot summer day were a pleasure. The view of the Yazoo River from the dining room was beautiful.  The food was a disappointment.

Lesson learned: don't order Louisiana cuisine in Mississippi.

M/V Mississippi IV

The Motor Vessel Mississippi IV is a US Army Corps of Engineers vessel that served the Mississippi River Commission for over 30 years. Today it serves as a museum.