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Focused on Mississippi: Hall of Fame Restaurant
YAZOO COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – If you drive Highway 49 between Yazoo City and Bentonia, you’ve probably noticed the small, unpainted building on the east side of the highway at Little Yazoo. The unimposing establishment is the Hall of Fame Restaurant. It’s been around for several years. David Brown, who is the proprietor, started out […]
Still holding hands and eating Mississippi catfish
By Les Ferguson Columnist If I’ve done the math right, it was 1983. We were oh-so-young, and so was the World Catfish Festival in Belzoni. The annual event was only six years old, and Belzoni was a tiny delta town. Current statistics show that the city has a population under 2,000. If it was more […] The post Still holding hands and eating Mississippi catfish appeared first on The Oxford Eagle.
Still holding hands and eating Mississippi catfish
By Les Ferguson Columnist If I’ve done the math right, it was 1983. We were oh-so-young, and so was the World Catfish Festival in Belzoni. The annual event was only six years old, and Belzoni was a tiny delta town. Current statistics show that the city has a population under 2,000. If it was more […] The post Still holding hands and eating Mississippi catfish appeared first on The Panolian.
Longest alligator in Mississippi history captured by hunters
YAZOO CITY, Miss. (AP) — A group of hunters have captured the longest alligator ever to be recorded in Mississippi, according to the state Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. Four state residents — Donald Woods, Will Thomas, Joey Clark and Tanner White — harvested a male alligator Saturday in west Mississippi’s Sunflower River. It […]
Longest alligator in Mississippi history captured by hunters
This photo provided by Red Antler Processing shows the alligator sport hunting team made up of, from left, Tanner White, tag-holder Donald Woods, Will Thomas and Joey Clark as they hoist, with the help of a forklift, the longest alligator officially harvested in Mississippi, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023, at Red Antler Processing in Yazoo City, Miss. The male alligator weighed 802.5 pounds and measured 14 feet, 3 inches long, and its length broke the state record as the longest alligator ever caught, according to the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. (Shane Smith/Red Antler Processing via AP) YAZOO CITY, Miss. (AP) — A group of hunters have captured the longest alligator ever to be recorded in Mississippi, according to the state Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. Four state residents — Donald Woods, Will Thomas, Joey Clark and Tanner White — harvested a male alligator Saturday in west Mississippi’s Sunflower River. It weighed 802.5 pounds (364 kilograms) and measured 14 feet, 3 inches (4.3 meters) long, breaking the previous record by over 2 inches, the department said.
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