Kosciusko

Well, look at this.

Greg, you were talking about, or Speedy, you were, and I won't get into the details of it, but it had to do with a state playoff situation in Costco.

And there was a conversation with a coach that said – We're better off to be the number three seed because it's an easier route through the playoffs.

I don't really want to be one or two.

In the early 1890s, Marion County, Mississippi, had a White Cap problem.

The White Caps were a night-riding vigilante band of white men, and a Kosciusko paper later described them as terrorizing that section for a long time by burning barns, whipping Negroes, and killing stock.

By the summer of 1893, it had gotten so bad that Sheriff McGee needed 50 special deputies to hold a term of circuit court.

Many of them called for jury duty were sent home because they were thought to be in sympathy with the White Caps.

The Picayune said the noose let loose.

The Sun said it parted, and a paper in Wheeling, West Virginia, said the rope broke.

Kosciusko paper later blamed a disarrangement of the noose, while the Clarion Ledger said the rope had simply slipped off his neck.

By the time the story had been retold for a few years, the knot had slipped after the body writhed and quivered in midair.

Yeah, sure.

So it was actually when, back when it was MEC, um, one of our former board members, Ray Michael, um, someone fr- he was from Kosciusko, approached him and, um, I think the STAR student program was still trying to figure out who it was and, um, we came on board and our, we award scholarships to the top 20 students.

So the top three students, we give a, a four-year award, and then the numbers four through 20, um, who are ranked based on their ACT and GPA, we give a one-time award to.

And we also award the teachers, which I think is something that, um, is different about this program, is that those students are allowed to pick a teacher that they feel like had an influence on their, um, time, and, uh, name them their STAR teacher.

This was before they started doing the Chimneyville show i- on the, in the Trade Mart.

It was held, um, in a pasture next to the Natchez Trace, south of Kosciusko, in a couple of tents.

And, uh, it was on a, it happened to be a lovely weekend in the fall, and I had a small table that caught the eye of an architect named Bob Cannizzaro, who on the basis of that, passed me several commissions to move up in scale and start doing f- furnishings for, um, several churches.

Uh, coincidentally, um, the liturgy in Catholic churches was being altered as a result of the Vatican II conference, um, and they needed new furnishings because the mass was, had been turned around and was facing the congregation.