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Felder's Scarecrow

My simple scarecrow, a ragged revenant tattered from a long season of fickle weather, is ready to be put to rest. Not that I don’t have other human figures guarding the garden; beyond crop protection, human figures...

October 16, 2025 · Felder Rushing

North Carolina Trip Highlighted by Fresh Appalachian Cuisine with a Southern Flair

A week in western North Carolina offered breathtaking views of the Great Smoky and Blue Ridge Mountains as well as a chance to explore charming towns like Maggie Valley, Waynesville, Lake Junaluska, Clyde and Canton,...

October 16, 2025 · Kara Kimbrough

Paul Harvey and the Devil

Paul Harvey and the Devil by Daniel Gardner, Special to the Gazette When I was young I liked to listen to the radio. We mainly listened to local stations that featured popular or country music. At night if you caught a...

October 16, 2025 · Daniel Gardner

Happy Fall Ya'll!

HAPPY FALL YA’LL BY JUDY CAUSEY LOVE, SOUTHEAST ALABAMA CONTRIBUTING EDITOR I love October for many reasons but one of them is it my time to reminisce. It is a time when I clean out closets, and cedar chests and sort...

October 16, 2025 · Judy Causey Love

When the Braves Called Pearl Home

The Mississippi Braves are gone. So is “Snit,” but I still have the baseball he tossed me and “Frenchy” is on the broadcast. I’ll explain. I left work in Jackson one summer day circa 2005, heading east towards...

October 16, 2025 · Mac Gordon

Felder's Ragweed

One of the most beautiful but polarizing fall flowers is getting cranked up, and people are starting to sneeze… but blaming the wrong culprit while overlooking a real garden workhorse. Much-maligned native goldenrod...

October 9, 2025 · Felder Rushing

Banning Pet Sales

When Mike Ricci wanted to buy his daughter a puppy, he discovered that in his state, “There were pet stores but none that sell puppies (or kittens).” Ricci, being president of Stossel TV, investigated. He discovered...

October 9, 2025 · John Stossel

That Box of Chocolates

small Mississippi town was sort of like Forest Gump’s box of chocolates-you never knew what you were gonna get. And then there were days when I felt as if I was a contestant on “Let’s Make A Deal” wondering what...

October 9, 2025 · Stanley Hartness

Felder's Snapdragons

There’s something to be said for the unexpected lagniappe that connects us, often unconsciously, to our lives through gardening. I went down this rabbit hole the other day while prepping my yard for the upcoming...

October 2, 2025 · Felder Rushing

It's Fall... Can Apple Baked Goods Be Far Behind?

Finally, it’s fall…the all-too-fleeting season that brings only a few cool days in the south in between heat spells and cold weather. Instead of thinking about ways to incorporate pumpkin spice into everything from...

October 2, 2025 · Kara Kimbrough

What are we talking about?

by Daniel Gardner, Special to the Gazette Last week I discussed speech topics with my students. Oh, the drudgery! So, what is going on in my students’ lives? Not much. I asked them what issues they might be concerned...

October 2, 2025 · Daniel Gardner, Special to the Gazette

Oh, The Suffering!

Have you heard how young people suffer now? Scroll TikTok, Instagram, etc., you see the same message: “Young people today can’t get ahead!” One popular meme says when baby boomers like me were young, “A family...

October 2, 2025 · John Stossel

Felder's Leaves

Easy enough to figure out why Autumn is called Fall - just look around. No sooner do I put up my rake and leaf blower, it looks like I never got started. Luckily, I have a high tolerance for fleeting disorder, even...

September 25, 2025 · Felder Rushing

Simple Pasta Dishes: A Love Letter to Italian Cuisine

Thursday, September 25, 2025 Page A3 MAGNOLIA GAZETTE Covered in red sauce (or gravy, as Italians lovingly call it); paired with sauteed vegetables, shrimp and more red sauce for a delicious Shrimp Creole; stirred...

September 25, 2025

Why I Left Network TV to Build Stossel TV

EDITORIAL Eight years ago, I left network TV behind. I worried that moving to social media wouldn’t work -- that not enough people wanted news alongside cat videos. I also worried that not enough of you would donate...

September 25, 2025 · John Stossel

Twists & Turns: Is It Time to Clean Out the Garage?

IS IT TIME TO CLEAN OUT THE GARAGE? BY JUDY CAUSEY LOVE, SOUTHEAST ALABAMA CONTRIBUTING EDITOR YES! I definitely think, as the weather turns cooler, it is time to get in that garage and try to clean it out. I say...

September 25, 2025 · Judy Causey Love

Felder's Honeydew

On my flight back from my summer home in England, while semi-dreading dealing with my neglected Mississippi garden, I decided to draft a cheery column on getting heirloom holiday plants to flower. It was all about...

September 18, 2025 · Felder Rushing

Gulf Coast Visit on Emotional Anniversary Brought Renewed Hope

Visiting the Mississippi Gulf Coast on the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina proved to be an emotional journey. Highlights were moving commemorative ceremonies and candlelight vigils;riveting documentaries and...

September 18, 2025 · Kara Kimbrough

Dying to tell the living truth

by Daniel Gardner, Special to the Gazette “And the high priest said to Him, ‘I adjure You by the living God, that You tell us whether You are the Christ, the Son of God.’ Jesus said to him, ‘You have said it...

September 18, 2025 · Daniel Gardner, Special to the Gazette

Phones Versus Play

childhood meant playing on the street, riding my bike, hanging out with friends. Most kids now experience a different childhood. Jonathan Haidt’s bestselling book, “The Anxious Generation,” talks about that. He...

September 18, 2025 · John Stossel

Southernisms: Caskets, Coffins and Coffee Cans

By Dwalia South, MD Gazette Contributing Editor I have arrived at three score and ten years, that milestone of age that the Bible says is the full span of life. According to Moses in Psalms 90:10, we live for 70 years...

September 18, 2025 · Dwalia South, MD

Cheeseballs Deserve Equal Billing With Dips

After sharing my favorite dip recipes last week as inspiration for fall football season, I was asked if I had any “new and different” recipes for cheeseballs. If it appeared that I was slighting cheeseballs in any...

September 11, 2025 · Kara Kimbrough

Are Americans Seeing The End of Print Journalism?

The stunning announcement that the large daily newspaper in Atlanta, the Journal-Constitution, will soon end a printed product and go solely online reminded me I once owned a newspaper printing press and a barrel of...

September 11, 2025 · Mac Gordon

Felder's Planters

Page A6 Thursday, September 4, 2025 MAGNOLIA GAZETTE Got some time on your hands to do a little easy creative pot-making for the garden? While trying to no slip back into the 1970s, during this season’s lull in garden...

September 4, 2025 · Felder Rushing