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Natchez: Memories and mayhem

On May 4, 2026 by Judy Nichols With 0 Comments - Blog, Our wanderings

The muddy Mississippi.
Southern skinny tamales from Fat Mama's Tamales, along with pickles, hot sauce, cornbread, and corn salad.
Plantation owners and gin managers pose with, perhaps, the weighing of the first cotton bale of the season.
Picking cotton
A steamboat loaded with cotton bales.
Girls dressed for Natchez Mardi Gras Ball
One of the Natchez mansions Tom was viewing when I fell.
Smacked my little head.
Ouch! Three stitches.
Tom trekking the sunken trace.
Judy and Tom in the sunken trace.
Judy and Tom at the Natchez Trace.
Mount Locust, built about 1780, one of the oldest structures in Mississippi, served as an inn where travelers on the Natchez Trace could rest for the night.
The Emerald Mound, built by the Mississippians from about 1300 to 1600, is the second-largest temple mound in the United States.
Now that's a shiner.

Natchez, Mississippi, seems like such a tranquil southern berg. How could one possibly end up in the emergency room? Let me tell you.

But before that, some backstory.

Mississippi, Natchez, Natchez Trace

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