Unlike those who carve walking sticks or canes, Vernon Errington of New Hebron finds gnarled, unique...

McArthur Chism was born in Glendora, Mississippi in 1942 and grew up in Water Valley. As a child, he...

Claudia Cartee is a skilled potter with an eclectic background. Her father’s family was and is bas...

Jessie Burge lives near his family’s “old home place” in Lamar County; his father was a sharec...

Long known as a center of chair making in the state, Thomastown lies south of Kosciusko in Leake Cou...

George Berry was born in Oklahoma at White Oak Indian Hills, a Cherokee Indian village. His father w...

Gustina Atlas was born in Claiborne County and has lived there all of her life. Her mother and all o...

Amoah was born in Ghana, a country on the western coast of Africa. He grew up in the village of Ahwa...

Fred Allsworth was born in 1937 in Purvis, Mississippi. His father was a Methodist minister, and the...

Dewey Alexander was born in Lawrence County in 1924 into a family of farmers. He worked initially ru...

Motorists driving on Highway 25 in far northeastern Mississippi will find it difficult to miss seein...