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FARE THEE WELL, MS. BEASLEY
By DAVID GUSTAFSON
Thu,01/16/20-5:31PM , 7,157 Reads
Thinking back, Beth Bunch may have been the very first local person I met on my first trip to Hattiesburg back in October 2009.

I was here for a long weekend to scope out the area and to undergo a couple of job interviews about the possibility of becoming the next publisher of this newspaper and its affiliated products.
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A giant leap forward
By DAVID GUSTAFSON
Wed,01/08/20-4:40PM , 4,836 Reads
Fifty-four years after the Ku Klux Klan firebombed the home of Hattiesburg civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer, you would be hard-pressed to find many people who remember the names of the cowards from Jones County who were responsible for the heinous crime.
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Saying goodbye to ‘the’ gym
By DAVID GUSTAFSON
Wed,12/04/19-4:26PM , 2,996 Reads
Word came from back home this week that the old high school gym in my hometown was being torn down to make room for a new junior high basketball and wrestling facility.
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Sometimes tradition is best served cold..
By DAVID GUSTAFSON
Tue,11/26/19-4:27PM , 2,361 Reads
One of the first songs I remember my mother ever playing on the piano was “Sentimental Journey,” a jazz standard made popular by Doris Day around the time the Second World War ended.

Gonna take a sentimental journey.

Gonna set my heart at ease.

Gonna make a sentimental journey.

To renew old memories.
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