Natchez Trace Parkway 2014
Display at the Delta Cultural Center, Helena, Arkansas. It's all about the blues, baby.
http://www.deltaculturalcenter.com/
Display at the Delta Cultural Center, Helena, Arkansas. The King Biscuit Flour Hour radio show, broadcast from Helena, Arkansas, gave many now famous blues performers their first exposure to a wide audience.
http://www.deltaculturalcenter.com/
Stanton Hall, Natchez, Mississippi. Built in 1858 by cotton king Frederick Stanton at a cost of over $83,000 exclusive of land and furnishings. Stanton lived only one month after his dream house was completed.
Unfortunately, the present owners, the Pilgrimage Garden Club, does not allow interior photography.
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One of many mansions in Natchez, Mississippi.
Rita found this collection of rubber duckys in a Natchez shop. Taken by Rita with her iPhone.
St. Mary Basilica, Natchez, Mississippi. Exterior.
Interior view of St. Mary Basilica, Natchez, Mississippi.
Interior view of St. Mary Basilica, Natchez, Mississippi.
Stained glass window, St. Mary Basilica, Natchez, Mississippi. Per their website: "Twelve of its beautiful stained glass windows, by Tyroler Glassmalerie, Innsbruch, Austria were installed between 1884–1893, and four, by Emil Frei, St Louis, Missouri, were installed in 1961." ... but I've not been able to determine who made this one.
Stained glass window, St. Mary Basilica, Natchez, Mississippi. Per their website: "Twelve of its beautiful stained glass windows, by Tyroler Glassmalerie, Innsbruch, Austria were installed between 1884–1893, and four, by Emil Frei, St Louis, Missouri, were installed in 1961." ... but I've not been able to determine who made this one.
St. Mary Basilica, Natchez, Mississippi. Exterior front in evening light.
Basement stairway, Natchez, Mississippi.
Under the Hill Trail, Natchez, Mississippi.
Chevy Impala 4 door sedan; I believe this is a 1961 model. Seen in Natchez, Mississippi.
Rita enjoying a bit of sun on a bluff above the Mississippi River; Natchez, Mississippi.
Start of the Natchez Trace Parkway in Natchez, Mississippi.
http://www.nps.gov/natr/index.htm
Old graveyard, Natchez Trace Parkway, near Natchez, Mississippi.
Old graveyard, Natchez Trace Parkway, near Natchez, Mississippi.
Windsor Ruins, near Port Gibson, Mississippi. Built between 1859 and 1861, was the home of Smith Coffee Daniell, II. The mansion contained twenty-five rooms with twenty-five fireplaces, and cost $175,000 to build and furnish. Unfortunately, Smith Daniell only lived in the large mansion for a few weeks before he died.
The home survived the war only to be totally destroyed on February 17, 1890, by a fire said to have been caused by a party guest who carelessly dropped a cigarette.
Detail of column finals, Windsor Ruins, near Port Gibson, Mississippi.
Log foot bridge at Rocky Springs, a former settlement on the Natchez Trace. Peak population around 1850 was in the thousands, but now little remains.
This old rusted safe is one of two that can be found back in the Jungle that was once Rocky Falls.
Spanish moss hanging on cyprus tree limbs. Rocky Falls ghost town, Natchez Trace, Mississippi.
Cemetery in the woods at Rocky Falls, a ghost town on the Natchez Trace.
The Natchez Trace Parkway. This is around mile marker 122 in Mississippi.
The tupelo cypress swamp; Natchez Trace Parkway, around mile post 122. Panorama taken by Rita with her iPhone.
The cypress swamp. Natchez Trace Parkway mile marker 122. hdr
